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** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **September Food Holidays:For Details, History and more DAY, WEEK and MONTH Food Holiday designations, including LINKS to Holiday Origins and Additional Information:SEE Detailed SEPTEMBER Food CalendarSEPTEMBER is:• Better Breakfast Month / All-American Breakfast Month• California Wine Month• Childhood Obesity Awareness Month• Family Meals Month• Hunger Action Month• National Biscuit Month• National Bourbon Heritage Month• National Chicken Month• National Cholesterol Education Month• National Food Safety Month• National Fruit Veggies Month• National Hazelnut Month• National Honey Month• National Mushroom Month• National Papaya Month (also June)• National Potato Month• National Rice Month• Organic Harvest Month: Organic September (observed in many countries)• Wild Rice Month• Whole Grains Month• UK National Fishing Month• UK Seed Gathering Season• UK: Sourdough September** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **FEATURED RECIPES TIPS· Chili Recipes· Chicken Soup Recipes· Hearty Beef Stew· Pizza Recipes· Potato Salad Recipes· Chicken Salad Recipes· Cole Slaw Recipes· Meatless Recipes· Skillet Pork Stew· Senator Mitch Mcconnell s Burgoo· White Chili Recipe· Original Frank s Redhot Wings· Classic Buffalo Wings Recipe· Sweet Potato Cooking Tips· Spicy Chicken Sausage Gumbo** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **FREE Magazines andother PublicationsAn extensive selection of free food, beverage agricultural magazines, e-books, etc.** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **DID YOU KNOW?Crab apple trees produce small, very tart (acid) fruit, sometimes used to make jellies and preserves. They are also spiced and preserved whole. In the Middle Ages crab apple juice was used much like vinegar is used today.** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **Saturday, September 26, 2020Daily Trivia Questions are below TODAY S FOOD QUOTE To me apples are fruit. To Cezanne they were mountains. David Smith (1906-1965)FOOD HOLIDAYS - TODAY IS:• Johnny Appleseed Day (see 1774 below) (John Chapman Biography)• National Hunting Fishing Day (Sept 26, 2020) [Presidential proclamation, 1972]• Better Breakfast Day [Calorie Control Council]• National Dumpling Day• Family Health Fitness Day (Sept 26, 2020 - last Saturday) [www.fitnessday.com]• St. Cosmas, patron of barbers, hairdressers, midwives and doctors.• (Some sources list today as National Pancake Day- see also Variable days in February)• Buffalo Round-Up (Sept 24-26, 2020) [Custer State Park, South Dakota]• National Alpaca Farm Days (Sept 26-27, 2020) [Alpaca Owners Association]• National Farm Safety Health Week (Sept 20-26, 2020) [Nat l Education Center for Agricultural Safety]• UK: Plant Health Week (Sept 21-27, 2020 [The Tree Council]• UK: [British Food Fortnight] (Sept 19 - Oct 4, 2020)• UK: Seed Gathering Season (Sept 22-Oct 22, 2020)[The Tree Council] Gather seeds, fruits and nuts which can be nurtured to grow the trees of the future.TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY1754 Joseph-Louis Proust born. Proust was a French chemist. In 1799 he extracted sugar from grapes, and proved it identical to sugar extracted from honey.1774 John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed was born. American pioneer and legend, he planted apple seeds in the Ohio River valley area (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois).1789 Samuel Osgood was appointed as the first Postmaster General under the Constitution.1820 Daniel Boone died. American pioneer and frontiersman.1843 Ivan Pavlov was born. He was the first to notice that dogs began to salivate when they could see, smell or taste food.1902 Levi Strauss died. Inventor and manufacturer of jeans. He originally planned to make canvas tents for miners in the California gold rush, but soon found that durable pants sold better.1904 Lafcadio Hearn died. (Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Hearn). A writer, translator and teacher, he wrote La Cuisine Creole, the first Creole cookbook.(Creole and Cajun)1914 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.1936 Horse Eats Hat opened at Maxine Elliott s Theatre in New York City.1953 Sugar rationing ended in Great Britain.1964 The TV show Gilligan s Island premiered. The comic tales of 7 shipwrecked castaways on an island.2008 Paul Newman died (born Jan 26, 1925). 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 $490 million as of May 2017).2009 A bottle water ban went into effect today in the town of Bundanoon in New South Wales, Australia (the first in Australia).2020 Coronavirus: Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has lifted all restrictions on businesses statewide, including bars and restaurants, which may now operate at full capacity. Cities and counties may not issue fines or other penalties to people for not wearing face coverings; 33 states report rise in new coronavirus cases; U.S. Coronavirus cases more than 7,244,180 with over 208,440 deaths; Global cases more than 32,765,270 with over 993,460 deaths.** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **UPCOMING FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS(SEE ALL FOOD FESTIVALS and OTHER FOOD EVENTS)** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **FOOD TRIVIA QUIZ (new DAILY questions)1) The following events all took place in the same year - name that year:* Friskees introduced the first dry cat food * Rice-A-Roni goes on sale. Produced by Vince DeDomenico from an Armenian family recipe. * Cocoa Puffs is introduced by General Mills; it contains 43% sugar. * Cocoa Krispies is introduced by Kellogg s - it s 45.9% sugar. * There are 4,063 drive in movie screens nationwide. * Jolly Green Giant was born. He appears on TV, but he looks like a monster and scares kids. So they lighten him up a bit, added Ho, ho, ho and add a catchy jingle. * Sweet n Low was introduced as an artificial sweetener (granulated saccharin, dextrose, cream of tartar and calcium silicate). It received U.S. trademark patent no. 1,000,000. * Frank Carney, 18 years old, reads about the pizza fad with college students. He borrows $600 from his mother and opens the first Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas. * McDonald s sold its 100 millionth hamburger. 2) What bitter extract from a southern European plant root is used in Angostura bitters, chocolate, vermouth, candy, ice cream and vanilla flavorings?3) About what percentage of a lemon is juice?Click here for the answers** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **Read an article about Chef James and the FoodReference.com website published in the Winona Daily News, Minneapolis StarTribune, and numerous other newspapers: Click here for the Article** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **DedicationThis 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.· Cpl. Thomas E. Saba, my nephew. Died in action on Feb. 7, 2007 in Iraq. He was 30 yrs. young. Chef JamesTOP DID YOU KNOW?Apples are self-incompatible - you need two trees growing near each other to have successful pollination.** ** ** ** ** **

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