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IT'S APRIL 2015 IN TDK LAND – NO FOOLIN'
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April 16, 2015
“I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.” Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)Food Holidays – Today is:
•April 16: Day of the Mushroom
‘shrooms 😀
• National Eggs Benedict Day
• Feast of St. Drogo, patron of coffee house owners and keepers.
http://cafecommunity.blogspot.com/2012/04/st-drogo-patron-saint-of-coffee-shop.html
Cheers for St Drogo!• St. Magnus of Orkney, patron of fishmongers.
• St. Bernadette’s Day, patron of shepherds.• UK: National Gardening Week: April 13-19, 2015
[Royal Horticultural Society]Friday, April 17, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.”
Will Durant, ‘Our Oriental Heritage’ (1935)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Cheeseball Day
Kick Ace Extra Sharp Raw Vegan Holiday Cheddar Cheese Ball. Virtual Vegan Potluck Edition.
•April 17: Healthy Kids Day• UK: National Gardening Week: April 13-19, 2015
[Royal Horticultural Society]In Memory – Never Again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/opinion/auschwitz-in-our-memory.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
:/Monday, April 20, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“I can’t cook. I use a smoke alarm as a timer.”
Carol SiskindFood Holidays – Today is:
• National Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day
Li’l bit of history:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Cake/pineapplecake.htm
http://veganstart.com/cakes/pineapple-upside-down-cake/
• National Lima Bean Respect Day (origin unknown)
R-e-s-p-c-t…lalala lima beans…;)Tuesday, April 21, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?”
Billy Connolly, comedian.Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Chocolate Covered Cashews Day
• St. Bueno’s Day, patron against cattle diseasesTODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1838 John Muir was born. Muir was a naturalist who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia and Yosemite national parks in California in 1890.
1910 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Died. American author, pen name Mark Twain, who wrote ‘Tom Sawyer’, ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ etc. There are many quotes and descriptions about food and dining in his works (and on FoodReference.com). An example is: “A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.” (From ‘A Tramp Abroad’).
April 22, 2015:
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.” Erma Bombeck (1927-1996)
Was fave yummy treat as teenie bopper! 😉
Food Holidays – Today is:
• Earth Day (www.earthday.org) The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
• National Jelly Bean Day
• Bermuda Peppercorn Ceremony (April 22, 2015).
A major annual ceremonial event in St. George, when the Governor officially receives one Peppercorn from a Freemason official. In 1816 Bermuda’s capital moved from St. George to Hamilton City. The old stone State House, built in 1619, was given to the Freemasons for an annual rent of One Peppercorn.[held on the Wednesday closest to St. George’s Day, April 23].Thursday, April 23, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Picnic Day
• http://minimalistbaker.com/7-ingredient-vegan-cheesecakes/ational Cherry Cheesecake Day
• St. George’s Day, patron of farmersTODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1564 and 1616 William Shakespeare was born. He died on the same date 52 years later. There are many references to food in Shakespeare’s works. “Let the sky rain potatoes.” (‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’).
April 24, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE“Omit and substitute! That’s how recipes should be written. Please don’t ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.” Jeff Smith (the Frugal Gourmet)
🙂 one of my fave shows from awhile ago!Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Arbor Day 2015 (April 24, 2015 – many states observe different dates according to best local tree planting times)
• National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
• National 30 Hour Famine (Feb 27-28 & April 24-25, 2015) Students in the U.S. and around the world unite to learn about hunger, raise funds to help the hungry, and then go hungry themselves for 30 hours!TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas was born. He was the founder and long time editor of the ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ now known as the ‘Old Farmer’s Almanac.’
April 26 – Soft Pretzel Day:
YumApril 27, 2015
Food Holidays – Today is:• National Prime Rib Day
• St. Zita feast day, patron of servants.• Stewardship Week: April 26 – May 3, 2015
[National Association of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1773 The British Parliament passed the ‘Tea Act,’ one of the events that led to the American Revolution.
1865 Cornell University was chartered. Cornell is an agricultural land grant university endowed by Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union Telegraph Co. Today, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers many programs, including Agricultural and Life Sciences, Hotel Administration, and Nutritional Sciences.
1871 The American Museum of Natural History in New York City was opened to the public.
1902 Julius Sterling Morton died. He was the founder of Arbor Day, first observed in Nebraska on April 10, 1872. Over one million trees were planted.
1995 On ‘Seinfeld’ Kramer began sculpting with pasta
Kramer’s ‘Fusilli Jerry’ sculpture. 😉Tuesday, April 28, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“I remember his burlesque pretense that morning of an inextinguishable grief when I wonder that I had never eaten blueberry cake before, and how he kept returning to the pathos of the fact that there should be a region of the earth where blueberry cake was unknown.” William Dean Howells (1894)
🙂
http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2012/05/frosted-blueberry-cake-vegan.htmlFood Holidays – Today is:
• National Blueberry Pie Day
• Stewardship Week: April 26 – May 3, 2015
[National Association of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1753 Franz Karl Achard was born. (died April 20, 1821). A German chemist, he developed the first commercial process to produce sugar from sugar beets in 1796, and in 1802 established the first sugar beet refinery.
1789 The most famous mutiny in history took place on the English ship, ‘Bounty’, against Captain William Bligh. The ship was returning from Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees.
1796 ‘American Cookery’ by Amelia Simmons is published in Hartford. It is the first cookbook written by an American. This is one of the classic cookbooks that can be found on the Food Reference Website.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“Garlic used as it should be used is the soul, the divine essence, of cookery. The cook who can employ it successfully will be found to possess the delicacy of perception, the accuracy of judgment, and the dexterity of hand which go to the formation of a great artist.”
Mrs. W. G. Waters ‘The Cook’s Decameron’ (1920)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Shrimp Scampi Day
• Stewardship Week: April 26 – May 3, 2015
[National Association of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1759 John Adlum was born (died March 14, 1836). American viticulturist, he is sometimes mistakenly credited with developing the Catawba grape. He was a pioneer in cultivation of native grape varieties, and certainly was instrumental in popularizing the Catawba grape.
Time to crush those grapes 😉Thursday, April 30, 2015
TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
“In pies, puddings, &c., raisins are not to be tolerated, and I must protest against their frequent use in this way, as not merely a waste of time and property, but as a means of destroying more health, in fashionable life, than all the physicians, in high life, ever restored.”
William Andrus Alcott, ‘The Young House-keeper’ (1846)Food Holidays – Today is:
• National Oatmeal Cookie Day
• Raisin Day
http://www.getmecooking.com/recipe/vegan-oatmeal-raisin-cookies
• Stewardship Week: April 26 – May 3, 2015
[National Association of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
On this day in:
1792 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich died. Captain Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him (now known as Hawaii). He is supposed to have invented the sandwich as a quick meal so as not to interrupt his gambling sessions. (Sandwich Trivia)
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