Thursday, February 3, 2005 Food quiz is below Jan 28
TODAY’S QUOTE
“Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.”
Dave Barry, Miami Herald Columnist
* Recipe Contests, Food Contest, Culinary Competitions, etc.
* Weekly Food Cartoon by J. Gluskin
* Mark Vogel every Week - Feb 2 - ‘No Substitutions Please’
* The BAR, Liana Bennett - Monthly Beverage Alcohol Report - January
* New Books Listed - Low Carb 1-2-3 - Big Book of Recipes for Babies, Toddlers & Children - America’s Test Kitchen Live! - Fork It Over - American Classics - Cooking New American - The Essential EatingWell Cookbook TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY (buy the CD)
* National Carrot Cake Day
* Japan: Setsubun (Bean Throwing Festival)
1468 Johannes Gutenberg died. He invented the method of printing from moveable type. One of the important innovations in his method was a new press, similar to the screw presses used in winemaking.
1815 The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
1823 Spencer Fullerton Baird was born. An American naturalist and zoologist, he was the second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
1916 The Cafe Voltaire opened in Zurich, Switzerland. It became a meeting place for members of the Dada movement in art and literature.
1959 The day the music died. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) are killed in a plane crash near Mason City, Iowa.
View Culinary Calendar of Events for the year
FOOD ART & FOOD POSTERS - 1,000’s of Posters with food, plant, animal, travel, vacation and related themes.
DID YOU KNOW? Food Trivia
According to the company, Uncle Ben was an African American Texas rice grower, who had a reputation for the quality of his harvested rice. Supposedly his rice became the standard by which all other rice was judged. During WW II, Gordon L. Harwell's company, Converted Rice, Inc., supplied high quality rice to the U.S. Armed Forces. After the war, the company began offering the same high quality rice to consumers, and named it Uncle Ben's after the Texas rice grower.
CULINARY QUIZ
1) 30 years ago large this aquatic vertebrate might sell for a penny a pound for catfood, if it sold at all. Today, that same animal will sell for up to $50 per pound (that's $50,000 for a one!), mainly due to the popularity of two Asian food specialities. Name this animal and the Asian food specialties.
2) In the early 20th century this was considered a disgusting food by the British. Escoffier, while chef at the Carlton Hotel in London, had them accepted by no other than the Price of Wales by listing them on the menu as 'cuisses de nymphes aurore', or legs of the dawn nymphs. What is the common name of this food?
3) How did the alligator pear get its name and what is the other common name for it?
4) How much feed does it take to produce a dozen eggs?
5) What country has more varieties of crabs than anywhere else in the world?
6) What herb is used in the production of imitation maple syrup, rum and butterscotch flavors?
7) What percentage of a lemon is juice?
8) How many pounds of mustard are consumed in the world each year?
9) The East Coast and West Coast of the U.S. have differing tastes in peanut butter. What are their preferences?
10) What percentage of all pumpkins are sold for food?
Answers to Culinary Quiz
February is:
* 2005 - Bake for Family Fun Month
* Berry Fresh in the Sunshine State Month
* Canned Food Month
* Celebration of Chocolate
* Chocolate Month
* Great American Pies Month
* National Bird Feeding Month - In January 1994, Illinois 10th District Congressman John Porter read a resolution in the Congressional Record making February National Bird Feeding Month. The observance was established because it's one of the most difficult months in much of the U.S. for birds to survive in the wild.
* National Cherry Month
* National Grapefruit Month
* National Hot Breakfast Month
* National Potato Month
* National Snack Food Month
* North Carolina Sweet Potato Month
* Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month Variable Date Events
* Agriculture Week
* Carnival celebrations around the world.
* Chocolate Festivals at Various Locations
* Fritter Thursday
* Iceland: Bun Day
* Iceland: Bursting Day - feast on mutton and pea soup.
* International Eating Disorders Week
* Jalapeno Festival: Laredo, Texas
* National Date Festival
* National Pancake Day
* National Pancake Week
* Parke County Maple Fair, Rockville Indiana
* Seafood Festivals at Various Locations
* Shrove Tuesday
* UK: Bramley Apple Week
* UK: National Chip Week
* UK: National Honey Week
* UK: Oatmeal Monday at Universities
* UK: National Potato Day
* Wine Festivals at Various Locations | 
