Food Facts....12

Food Facts....12

• wynnebaer 15 years ago
  TODAY’S EVENTS IN FOOD HISTORY...3/18
  * National Oatmeal Cookie Day
  
  1863 Women rioted in Salisbury, North Carolina, to protest the lack of flour and salt in the Confederacy.
  
  1966 Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper died. Quote: "Having only friends [and no enemies] would be dull....like eating eggs without salt."
  
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• wynnebaer 15 years ago said:
  TODAY’S EVENTS IN FOOD HISTORY...3/20
  * First Day of Spring
  * National Agricultural Day
  * National Ravioli Day
  
  1602 The Dutch East India Company was established and the Netherlands granted it a monopoly on trade with Asia.
  
  1727 Sir Isaac Newton died. The story is that an apple falling on his head inspired his theory of universal gravitation. The apple is thought to have been the green skinned 'Flower of Kent' variety.
  
  
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• wynnebaer 15 years ago said:
  TODAY’S EVENTS IN FOOD HISTORY....3/21
  * National French Bread Day
  * California Strawberry Day
  
  1984 A section of Central Park is renamed 'Strawberry Fields' to honor John Lennon.
  
  1994 Due to bad harvests, there is a shortage of Japanese grown rice. Japan's Imperial Palace begins serving royal meals to the Emperor & Empress with rice grown in the U.S., China and Thailand.
  
  1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed in the Egyptian desert, having completed the 1st 'Around the World' hot air balloon flight. According to the BBC, they carried fresh food, including bread, cheese and pre-cooked steaks to last for 6 or 7 days, after which they made due with dried foods such as cereals and powdered milk. The flight began in the Swiss Alps, took 19 days, 21 hours and 55 minutes, and covered 29,056 non-stop miles.
  
  
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• wynnebaer 15 years ago said:
  TODAY’S EVENTS IN FOOD HISTORY....4/2
  * National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
  * St. Urban of Langres' Day, patron of barrel makers, coopers, and vintners.
  
  1819 The periodical, 'American Farmer' was founded by John Skinner
  
  1840 Emile Zola was born. French writer and critic who was also known as a gourmand. His detailed descriptions of simple meals, banquets and eating in his novels are among the best to be found anywhere. He was also known for his own luxury dinner parties. "What will be the death of me are bouillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities."
  
  1863 The Richmond Bread Riots: Shortages of food caused hundreds of angry women gathered in Richmond, Virginia to march on the governor's office and then on the government commissary to demand bread. It ended in a riot when they broke into the commissary and then other shops & buildings and carried out anything they could carry. Even the hospital reported losing over 300 pounds of beef. Arrests were made, but at the request of authorities, the newspapers downplayed the incident, and records were later destroyed when the Confederate government fled and burned much of the town behind them.
  
  
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