Food & History: November 27
Food & History: November 27 1701 Anders Celsius born, a Swedish astronomer who developed the temperature scale. 1910 Pennsylvania Station, the largest railway station in […]
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 25
Food & History: November 25 1846 Carrie Amelia Moore Nation born, a radical American temperance movement leader most noted for using a hatchet to destroy […]
Food & History: November 24
Food & History: November 24 1762 Sandwich first appears in print. Edward Gibbons Journal, entry on this day reads ‘I dined at the Cocoa Tree….That respectable […]
Food & History: November 23
Food & History: November 23 1534 German botanist Otto Brunfels dies. His work is considered to be a bridge between ancient and modern botany. 1553 […]
Food & History: November 22
Food & History: November 22 1862 Dr. Alexander P. Anderson born. He developed puffed rice which was introduced to the world at the St. Louis […]
Food & History: November 21
Food & History: November 21 1934 NABISCO introduces Ritz Crackers. 1964 The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, opens. 2005 Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa […]
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 […]
Food & History: November 19
Food & History: November 19 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico during his 2nd voyage to the New World. 1961 Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor […]
Food & History: November 18
Food & History: November 18 1821 Jacob Schweppe dies, the first to develop a practical process for producing carbonated mineral water. 1857 Rose Markwood Knox […]
Otto’s Shrunken Head
Otto’s Shrunken Head As their story goes, a small group of native New Yorkers got together in early 2002 and decided that New York City […]
China Gourmet
China Gourmet Eagle Rock Avenue, West Orange NJ For the longest time I’ve wanted to return here. It seemed really tiki (at least on the […]
Food & History: November 17
Food & History: November 17 1749 French cook Nicolas Appert born. He developed the method of preserving by canning. 1857 H.N. Wadsworth of Washington DC […]
