Food & History: December 29
Food & History: December 29 1908 G & JG Smith register the Glenlivet’ trademark for scotch whiskey. 1921 Robert C. Baker born, inventor of chicken […]
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Food & History: December 25
Food & History: December 25 336 The first recorded celebration of Christmas. 1213 King John of England orders 3,000 capons, 1,000 salted eels, 400 hogs, […]
Food & History: December 20
Food & History: December 20 1928 Harry Ramsden opens the most famous fish and chips restaurant in the world. 1949 Thomas Carvel receives patent for […]
Food & History: December 19
Food & History: December 19 1909 The ‘New’ Palace Hotel opens in San Francisco, replacing the original that was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Please […]
Food & History: December 16
Food & History: December 16 1773 The Boston Tea Party begins the American Revolution when a group of men dressed as Indians, boarded ships and […]
Food & History: December 14
Food & History: December 14 1943 John Harvey Kellogg dies, founder of Kellog’s Breakfast Cereals. . 1948 Canadian Supreme Court lifts ban on margarine. […]
Food & History: December 13
Food & History: December 13 1813 French agronomist Antoine Augustin Parmentier dies, promoter of the potato as a food source instrumental in gaining its acceptance […]
Food & History: December 12
Food & History: December 12 1922 Peter Paul Candy registers the ‘Mounds’ candy bar trademark. 1925 The first motel opens in San Luis California. The […]
Food & History: December 7
Food & History: December 7 1879 Charles Lavelle Broley born in Canada, he was one of the first to implicate DDT as a toxic pesticide […]
Food & History: December 6
Food & History: December 6 1492 Columbus sighted the islands now known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 1883 Ladies’ Home Journal & Practical Housekeeper’ […]
Food & History: December 5
Food & History: December 5 1870 French writer Alexandre Dumas dies. Author of ‘Grande Dictionnaire de la cuisine,’ which he finished a just a few […]
Food & History: December 4
Food & History: December 4 1860 George A. Hormel born, founder of meat packing company, who developed the first canned ham in 1926, known as […]
Food & History: November 26
Food & History: November 26 1789 US President George Washington signs a proclamation declaring Thursday the 26th day of November as the first national Thanksgiving […]
Food & History: November 20
Food & History: November 20 1758 Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière born. He was a French writer and gastronome who was notorious for […]
