YAY – IT'S MAY 2015 IN TDK LAND!

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20 May, 2015 at 10:47 pm #832115

katzenjammer
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There’s a patron saint of advertisers – like the ones who endlessly send me e-mails for things that I 100% have no need of – WT… ❓ ❗

21 May, 2015 at 6:45 pm #832155

Jeankit
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May 21, 2015:

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” Julia Child (1912-2004)

Food Holidays – Today is:

• National Waitstaff Day
• National Strawberries & Cream Day

Swoon… 🙂
• National Aperitif Day 2015 (3rd Thursday. Declared annually in press release by Maison Lillet, the celebrated vintner in Bordeaux)

Cheers!
• UK: British Tomato Week (May 18-24, 2015)
[British Tomato Growers’ Association]
• UK: National Vegetarian Week (May 18-24, 2015)
[The Vegetarian Society]

22 May, 2015 at 6:25 pm #832195

Jeankit
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Start of a long weekend for some – here’s what’s on the menu with nomz:
•May 22: National Vanilla Pudding Day

•May 23: National Taffy Day

•May 24: National Escargot Day
It’s Sunday – NO cooking – kitchen is CLOSED! 😉
•May 25: National Brown-Bag-It Day

Enjoy!

26 May, 2015 at 6:27 pm #832334

Jeankit
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May 26, 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)

Food Holidays – Today is:

• National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/cakes/r/Blueberry-Cheesecake.htm
• World Fair Trade Week (May 23-31, 2015)
[World Fair Trade Organization]
• UK: National BBQ Week (May 25-31, 2015)
• UK: English Wine Week (May 23-31, 2015)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

On this day in:

1818 Urbain Dubois was born (died March 14, 1901). French chef, author of many cookbooks, but especially ‘La cuisine classique’ (1856). Served as chef to Prince Alexey Orlov and Prince William of Prussia.

1923 James Arness was born. Best known as Marshal Matt Dillon on the TV series ‘Gunsmoke,’ he also played the creature in the 1951 movie ‘The Thing from Another World.’ The creature was a vegetable based alien life form, a “super intellectual carrot.”

1927 The last Model T Ford rolled off the assembly line. 15 million Model T’s were produced from 1908 to 1927.

27 May, 2015 at 6:19 pm #832412

Jeankit
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DAILY Trivia Questions are below

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“A man’s own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”
Anthony Trollope, English novelist (1815-1882)

May 27, 2015:
Food Holidays – Today is:

• National Grape Popsicle Day

Cheers with a popsicle! 😉
• World Fair Trade Week (May 23-31, 2015)
[World Fair Trade Organization]
• UK: National BBQ Week (May 25-31, 2015)
• UK: English Wine Week (May 23-31, 2015)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

On this day in:

1901 Conrad Arnold Elvehjem Born. American biochemist who identified nicotinic acid as a vitamin (one of the B vitamins), and that a deficiency on nicotinic acid resulted in the disease pellagra.

1907 Rachel Louise Carson was born; author of ‘Silent Spring.’ An American biologist, the book was concerned with the dangers of environmental pollution, especially DDT

1919 U.S. patent No. 1,304,623 was issued for ‘Pyrex’ glass (sodium borosilicate glass).

1930 Richard G. Drew of St. Paul, Minnesota patented removeable masking tape (U.S. patent No. 1,760,820). He worked out a deal with 3M to market it under the ‘Scotch’ brand (Sept 8, 1930).

1933 The first automatic soda fountain dispenser is introduced by Coca-Cola.

28 May, 2015 at 7:02 pm #832483

Jeankit
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TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE

“A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic…. Your are what you think you eat.” Tom Robbins

Food Holidays – Today is:

• National Hamburger Day
• National Brisket Day
• UK: World Hunger Day

• World Fair Trade Week (May 23-31, 2015)
[World Fair Trade Organization]
• UK: National BBQ Week (May 25-31, 2015)
• UK: English Wine Week (May 23-31, 2015)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

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1779 Thomas Chippendale, famous furniture designer and maker died.

1892 The Sierra Club is formed in San Francisco for nature conservation.

1897 Jell-O was introduced. (see also Peter Cooper)
http://cookinwithhailey.blogspot.com/2010/10/martys-raspberry-jello-dessert-salad.html
(I don’t do cool-whip/you can find Tru-whip at local co-op etc.)
http://www.snack-girl.com/snack/cool-whip-versus-truwhip/
1910 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist, was born in Linden, Texas.

29 May, 2015 at 6:50 pm #832532

Jeankit
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Winding down to end of May!
Here are three ways to celebrate with nomz as send off:
•May 29: National Coq Au Vin Day*

Seitan Coq au Vin [Vegan]

•May 30: National Mint Julep Day

Cheers!
•May 31: National Macaroon Day
http://www.choosingraw.com/almond-and-coconut-macaroons-raw-and-vegan/

Enjoy!
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