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IT'S APRIL 2015 IN TDK LAND – NO FOOLIN'
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April 2, 2015:
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.” Anna Shapiro, ‘A Feast of Words’ (1996)
Food Holidays – Today is:
• Pascua Florida Day – State Day in Florida
[See 1513 below]
• National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
• Feast of Acan, the Mayan God of Wine
Acan is the Mayan god of wine. His name means ‘belch’. He is identified with the local brew, balche, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the balche tree has been added. He has no background and little info about him.• St. Urban of Langres’ Day, patron of barrel makers, coopers, and vintners.
Friday, April 3, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Chocolate Mousse Day
http://healthyblenderrecipes.com/recipes/vegan_chocolate_chilli_pepper_mousseWeekend Treats:
• April 4: National Cordon Bleu Day
•April 5: National Caramel Day
•April 5: National Raisin and Spice BarMonday, April 6, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”
Samuel Butler (19th century British author)Food Holidays – Today is:
• California Poppy Day (the golden poppy is the official state flower)
• National Caramel Popcorn Day
Yum – but watch those teeth fillings! 😉Tuesday, April 7, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)Food Holidays – Today is:
• World Health Day (April 7 is the Anniversary of the founding of WHO, the World Health Organization, in 1948)
• International Beaver Day (see 1894 below)
• National Beer Day (see 1933 below)
• National Coffee Cake Day
Yum – 🙂• National Public Health Week: April 6-12, 2015
“The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.”
Bryan Miller, N.Y. Times 10/23/83Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Empanada Day
Take your pick – cheese or apple 🙂
• St. Walter of Pontnoise’s Day, patron of vintners• National Public Health Week: April 6-12, 2015
[American Public Health Assoc.]
• Egg Salad Week: April 6-12, 2015
[American Egg Board] Dedicated to the many delicious uses for all of the Easter eggs that have been cooked, colored, hidden and found.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1513 Ponce de Leon landed in Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth. He thought it was just another island of the Bahamas. (Sources vary on date from April 2 to April 8 but Florida celebrates on April 2nd.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat till she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon.”
George Bernard Shaw, ‘Pygmalion’ (1913)
Food Holidays – Today is:• National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
🙂
• National (or International) Gin & Tonic Day (also Oct 19 – origin unknown).
Cheers!
Remember to drink responsibly!
• National Public Health Week: April 6-12, 2015TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.”
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Cinnamon Crescent Day
• The First Arbor Day
• National Farm Animals Day (farmanimalsday.com/)
Farm creatures are cute, and in addition they play a huge role in society. Take a while to understand them this World Farm Animals Day. Produced in memory of Ghandi, who supported dealing with all living creatures.Tuesday, April 14, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.” Fernand Point
Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Pecan Day
http://vegweb.com/recipes/amazing-pecan-pie
• UK: National Gardening Week: April 13-19, 2015
[Royal Horticultural Society]
• National Library Week – April 12-18, 2015
[American Library Assoc.)TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1828 The first edition of Noah Webster’s dictionary is copyrighted.
1912 The British luxury liner Titanic struck an iceberg shortly before midnight. It sank at 2:20 a.m. on April 15.
1927 Clarence Birdseye of Massachusetts received a U.K. patent for frozen fish fingers.
1935 Black Sunday. A huge dust storm or ‘black blizzard’ blew through areas of New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas. One of the worst dust storms in U.S. history, it displaced an estimated 300 million tons of topsoil.
April 15th – Rubber Eraser Day
(how fitting on Tax Day!)TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
Pink Floyd, ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part II (1979)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Glazed Ham Day
• Fordicidia Festival to honor Ceres, Roman Goddess of Agriculture
Terra Mater – Mother Earth 🙂
• UK: National Gardening Week: April 13-19, 2015
[Royal Horticultural Society]
• National Library Week – April 12-18, 2015
[American Library Assoc.)TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1452 Leonardi da Vinci was born (died May 2, 1519). Italian artist, etc, etc, etc.
1710 Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo was born. Born in Belgium, this ballerina danced with the Paris Opera. Escoffier named many gourmet dishes in her honor.
Yum – sweet potatoes – this recipe was just shared on today’s FB:
Lunch! Twice Baked Stuffed Sweet Potato with Cashew Sour Cream
One of the easiest, inexpensive, and most satisfying foods you can eat are sweet potatoes. The also pack a wallop of health benefits including B6 which helps reduce the chemical homocysteine in our bodies. Homocysteine has been linked with degenerative diseases, including heart attacks. Other health benefits include a strong dose of Vitmain C, which helps fight colds and produces collagen which keeps our skin wrinkle free. They also contain Vitamin D, iron, potassium, magnesium and are a good source of fiber
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