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Credit: Denny Culbert Five Food Finds about Soufflé Potatoes Souffle potatoes, also known as pommes souffles or potato puffs, are a type of fried potato.The item was created by French chef Jean-Louis-Francois Collinet completely by accident, sometime in the 1830s.The potatoes are fried once to seal the outside, then fried again at a higher temperature, causing the steam inside to puff them like…

September 25th is officially National Quesadilla Day!

National Quesadilla Day

      Today’s Food History

on this day in…

1777 Johann Heinrich Lambert died. He proved that Apple pie was irrational.  Oops – never mind – that was ‘pi’ that he proved was an irrational number.

1843 Melville Reuben Bissell was born. Bissell invented the carpet sweeper in 1876.

1879 The Cream Separator was patented.

1974It is first reported that freon from aerosol cans…

September 1st is National Gyro Day!

  Here are today’s five thing to know about Gyros:

A gyro is a dish of meat roasted on a vertical spit. It is usually served as a sandwich, also called a gyros, with tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce, wrapped in pita bread.

To make gyros, pieces of meat are placed on a tall vertical spit, which turns in front of a source of heat, usually an electric broiler.

 If the meat is not fatty enough,…

2019 March Food Holidays

Celebrate March Food Holidays National Fresh Celery Month National Noodle Month National Flour Month National Frozen Food Month National Nutrition Month National Peanut Month National Hot Cross Bun Day (Good Friday) National Sauce Month National Caffeine Awareness Month

Daily Holidays

 March 1  National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day

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March 2 National Banana Cream Pie Day

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–March 3 National Cold Cuts…

March 12th is National Milky Way Day!

Interesting Food Facts about Milky Way

The Milky Way bar was created in 1923 by Frank Mars.

In the 1920’s it came in two flavors chocolate and vanilla.

It was the first mass produced chocolate bar with a filling.

 The name ‘Milky Way’ was taken from a popular malted milkshake NOT the galaxy.

Outside of North America the Milky Way is a completely different kind of candy bar.

Fun Fact:

The…

March 11th is National “Eat Your Noodles” Day

Here are today’s five thing to know about Noodles:

Dry noodles are considered a form of unleavened bread

In China archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest bowl of noodles, thought to be over 4000 years old. They were made of millet flour.

“Instant” noodles were invented in 1958. They are flash fried then quickly dried. This made for a long shelf life.(If they are kept dry, some say they…

Here are today’s five thing to know about Ranch Dressing:

In 1954 ranch dressing was invented at Hidden Valley Ranch, a dude ranch near Santa Barbara, California.

Ranch dressing has been the best-selling salad dressing in the United States since 1992, overtaking Italian dressing.

Hidden Valley brand owns the right to ‘the Original Ranch®‘ After decades of trademark lawsuits similar products can…

March 9th is National Crab Day! 🦀

5 food facts about crab cakes

A crab cake is an American dish composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, milk, mayonnaise, eggs, yellow onions, and seasonings.

The two most common styles of Maryland crab cakes are known as Boardwalk and Restaurant.

Boardwalk crabcakes are typically breaded and deep-fried, and are often filled with stuffing of various sorts and…

March 8th is National Peanut Cluster Day

Here are today’s five thing to know about Peanut Cluster:

‘Peanut Cluster’ is referred to a type of candy that mixes melted chocolate and peanuts.

These crunchy treats are a perfect combination of a sweet and salty deliciousness.

There are several versions of peanut clusters including caramel clusters, butterscotch clusters and chocolate peanut clusters.

Peanuts have a higher antioxidant…

Interesting Food Facts about Cereal

The word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain.

The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal, Granula was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson.

Cereal is often eaten cold with with milk, yogurt, and sometimes fruit, but may be eaten dry.

Astronauts from Apollo 11 ate…

Five Food Facts about Oreos

In 1912, Nabisco had a new idea for a cookie – two chocolate disks with a creme filling in between.

  The first Oreo cookie looked very similar to the Oreo cookie of today, with only a slight difference in the design on the chocolate disks.

Little did they know that the Oreo cookie would become the largest selling cookie of all time.

The origin of the name Oreo is…

Here are today’s five things to know about the Cheese Doodle: Cheetos cheese-flavored puffs became a hit in the 1950’s. Soon after, Cheez Doodles appeared.

 “Cheez Doodles fingers” is the official term used when you get cheese powder on your fingers after eating any cheese flavored snack food.

  Cheez Doodles are said to be one of the only packaged snack foods preferred by Julia Child. The…

Happy National Pound Cake Day!

Here are today’s five thing to know about Poundcake:  The Pound Cake is a British creation that dates back to the early 1700s. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold, and served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or sometimes with a coat of icing.  In Britain pound cake is more commonly known as ‘Sponge cake’ or…

Um… March 3rd is National Moscow Mule Day! / #MoscowMuleDay

Here are five food finds about the Moscow Mule:

The original Moscow Mule combined Smirnoff vodka and ginger beer.

The famous copper mugs were part of the original Moscow Mule recipe.

Because of the popularity of this cocktail, Smirnoff Vodka took off.

The Moscow Mule had it’s own jingle!

Today’s Food History ◦ 1709 Andreas Sigismund Marggraf was born. A German chemist, in 1747 he extracted…

March 2nd is National Banana Cream Pie Day!

Here are today’s five food finds about banana cream pie:  Banana cream pie was considered the American soldier’s favorite dessert in 1951.  A banana cream pie with a “black bottom” is a banana cream pie with chocolate on the bottom. 

The english variation of the banana cream pie is called the “Banoffee Pie” and it contains banana and toffee.

Bananas are proven to be great after a strenuous…

March 1st is National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day / #PeanutButterDay

Five Food Finds about Peanut Butter 

 An 18oz jar of peanut butter needs 850 peanuts

The USA produce about 6% of the world’s crop of peanuts: by comparison India and China, together, produce about 70%

West Coast people  prefer chunky peanut butter, whereas those in the East Coast people like creamy

 Peanuts account for 2/3rds of the total snack “nuts” consumption in the USA

 96% of people, when…

February 28th is National Souffle Day!

Happy National Soufflé Day

Here are today’s five things to know about Chocolate Souffle: Supposedly, the first recipe for soufflé appeared in Vincent La Chapelle’s Le Cuisinier Moderne (1742).  The word soufflé first appeared in English in Louis Ude’s The French Cook, 1813.  By 1845 the soufflé was so commonly accepted that in Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery (1845) a recipe for soufflé was…