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I know some of the History stuff has nothing to do with food, but I have decided to keep it all in...just because I can.

 

 

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE
]“Good cooking does not depend on whether the dish is large or small, expensive or economical. If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvellous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea or sky are of any avail.”
Yuan Mei (1716 – 1797)
 

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
* National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day

1478 George Plantagenet, duke of Clarence died. Brother of Edward IV whom he was accused of plotting against. He was thrown into prison and secretly executed in the Tower of London. The rumor is that he was drowned in a butt (large cask) of malmsey wine.

1871 Harry Brearley was born. Brearley was an English metallurgist who invented stainless steel in 1912.

1885 The 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain was published.

1901 Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. Because of its large size, he mounted the machine on a horse carriage, with a long hose to reach inside a house, and offered cleaning services.

1930 At the St. Louis International Air Exposition, a cow supposedly flew in an airplane for the first time, and this same cow became the first cow to be milked while flying. Most likely the first true flying cow dung also.
(This reminds me of the ‘WKRP’ TV show - the Thanksgiving episode in which the radio station gave away 40 live turkeys by dropping them from an airplane over a shopping center, and Mr. Carlson (the station owner) uttered those famous words, “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”)



DID YOU KNOW? Food Trivia]
The Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) is a relative of the yam which is native to South Asia, and is cultivated to a limited extent in the U.S. In Florida and the tropics it is mostly considered a weed. Large potato like tubers form in the leaf axils, and can weigh several pounds. Also called aerial yam, potato yam and air potato yam.

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