Monday, September 12, 2005 Food

TODAY’S QUOTE
“I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat
my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that seems to you too
trifling a cause, pray tell for what cause you would have a cook
flogged?”
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Roman poet (1st century B.C.)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY
* National Chocolate Milkshake Day
* St Guy of Anderlecht, patron of horned animals, work horses, sheds
and outbuildings.

1818 Richard Jordan Gatling was born. Before inventing the Gatling
Gun, he developed a machine for sowing rice, wheat, and other grains,
and invented a steam plow.

1928 Katharine Hepburn makes her first New York stage appearance in
'Night Hostess.'

1940 The caves at Lascaux in France are discovered. They contain some
of the earliest know art, dating back over 15,000 years. The
prehistoric cave paintings (over 600) depict many large animals
including aurochs, red deer, horses, stags, bison, etc.

1959 The TV show 'Bonanza' premiers. The frontier adventures of the
Cartwright family, father, 3 sons and Chinese cook Hop Sing, on the
'Ponderosa' ranch near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

1965 Norwood Fisher of the music group 'Fishbone' was born.

1971 Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey closed.

DID YOU KNOW? Food Trivia
Bombay duck is really a small (up to 16 inches) edible lizardfish
which in India is salted then sun dried and used as a condiment. It
is also used as a food fish in many areas of southern Asia. Also
known as bumalo and bombila .