Monday, January 26, 2026Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Hard to call it a party without sardines.”
Brandon Mull, 'The Candy Shop War'
FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• National Peanut Brittle Day • [International Sous Vide Day] The birthday of Dr. Bruno Goussault, the father of modern sous vide (the process of vacuum-sealing food and cooking it in a temperature controlled water). • National Green Juice Day (?) • Australia: [National Australia Day] • St. Timothy's Day, patron against stomachaches.
TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1788 Captain Arthur Phillip took formal possession of the colony of New South Wales and became its first Governor. (Australia Food Trivia) 1838 The first state temperance law was passed in Tennessee. (Tennessee Food Trivia) 1861 Samuel Slocum died. He invented a machine to make pins with solid heads and a machine for sticking the pins in a paper holder for sale. 1871 Samuel Hopkins Adams was born (died Nov 16, 1958). American author and journalist. His series of articles in 1905 about patent medicines ('The Great American Fraud') for Collier's Weekly, led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. 1875 The first battery-powered dentist’s drill was patented by George F Green of Kalamazoo, Michigan. 1904 Ancel Keys was born (died Nov 20, 2004). An American nutritionist, he developed the lightweight, nutritious K ration used during WW II. He also identified saturated fats role in causing heart disease. (Military Food Trivia) 1909 Alexander King was born (died Feb 28, 2007). Scottish scientist. A pioneer in warning about the dangers to the environment from extensive industrial development. 1915 Corn Products Refining Co. registered 'ARGO' trademark for corn starch. (Corn Starch Tips & Facts) 1925 Paul Newman was born (died Sept 26, 2008). Actor, director, race car driver, etc. Newman also co-founded 'Newman's Own' food company, which donates all profits to charity (amounting to more than $500 million as of 2017). 1932 William Wrigley, Jr. died (born Sept 30, 1861). He started out as a traveling salesman at the age of 13, selling soap for his father's company. He had a series of sales jobs, one of which gave chewing gum as a premium. Customers liked the gum better than the product, so he was soon marketing his own gum, Juicy Fruit in 1893, and later that year Wrigley's Spearmint. An advertising genius, his company became the largest chewing gum manufacturer in the world. (Chewing Gum Trivia & Facts) 1962 Michael Chiarello was born. American celebrity chef, author, winery owner and cooking show host.
[Website: michaelchiarello.com/] 1965 Noah W. and Joseph S. McVicker received U.S. patent #3,167,440 for a "Plastic Modeling Composition of a Soft, Pliable Working Consistency", today better known as Play-Doh. Play-Doh was originally designed as a wallpaper cleaner. 2001 The movies 'Sugar and Spice' and 'The Wedding Planner' debuted in U.S. theaters. 2007 Food writer Sharon Tyler Herbst died. Author of ' The Food Lover's Companion,' 'The Joy of Cookies,' and more than a dozen other books. 2007 'Blood and Chocolate' opened in U.S. theaters.
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· Boston, Massachusetts appointed the first Inspector of Milk in the U.S.
· In the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, the first elevator in an American hotel began operation.
· Battle Creek, Michigan was incorporated as a city. The Breakfast Cereal center of the world.
· The first Pullman Sleeper railroad cars were put into service on the Chicago & Alton Railroad.
· Edwin L. Drake drilled the 1st successful commercial oil well in the U.S. near Titusville, Pennsylvania. 2) Native to both Europe and the Americas, today this fruit is cultivated in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida, but it is rarely cultivated from seed. The U.S. produces 75% of the world's crop, and it is an important crop in Canada, Australia, Japan, and parts of Africa.
Its name is very old, dating back to at least 1000 AD, There are many theories, but no one really knows for sure how, why and where its name originated. The Romans valued it for its supposed medicinal properties, such as healing loose teeth and treating stomach problems. This fruit is technically an enlarged pulpy receptacle bearing numerous achenes, or in other words an aggregate of numerous nutlets distributed on an enlarged, pulpy, scarlet receptacle.
It is 90% water and contains more vitamin C than an equal quantity of lemons or oranges.
Name this fruit. 3) When this St. Louis housewife married her lawyer husband in 1899, he had to teach her how to cook. In 1931 she published a private edition of a cookbook to give to her grown children. In it she gave minute details for each recipe. In 1936, at age 60 she published it for sale to the public. Her daughter and grandson have co-authored several new editions, and chances are pretty good that you have owned a copy of her cookbook yourself.
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This website is dedicated to:
· Gladys Ehler, my mother, who taught me patience and how to make Sauerbraten (it is still my favorite)
· Edward Ehler, my father, who taught me a love of books and history.
· Barbara Saba, my sister, who taught me how to dance.
· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young. Chef James
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