MONDAY – JUNE 10, 2013

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE 

“We haven’t had any tea for a week…..The bottom is out of the Universe” Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

FOOD HOLIDAYS – Today is:

– National Black Cow Day
– National Iced Tea Day

– Men’s Health Week  (June 10-16, 2013)
– UK: Food Safety Week  (June 10-16, 2013)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

On this day in:

1869 Frozen food was shipped long distance for the first time. Frozen Texas beef shipped by steamship to New Orleans.

1952 Mylar was registered as a DuPont trademark.  Mylar is a very strong polyester film that has gradually replaced cellophane.  It is used as a food wrap in addition to many other non-food uses.

1985 A ‘Most Embarrassing Moment’: Coca Cola announced it was bringing back the old formula Coke, to replace the New Coke nobody wanted.

DID YOU KNOW?

R. Blechyden served tea with ice at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 and supposedly invented iced tea.  Not true. He may have popularized iced tea at the World’s Fair, but he did not invent it.  Iced tea had been around since at least since 1890. It is mentioned in the ‘Nevada Noticer’, Sept 28, 1890

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS:

June 12, 2013  Virginia Pork Festival – Emporia, Virginia
June 12-15, 2013  Ice Cream Days – Le Mars, Iowa
June 14, 2013  Truckeroo Food Truck Festival – Washington D.C.
June 15, 2013  Chocolate, Shakespeare & Champagne – Winona, Minnesota
June 15, 2013  19th Annual RC & Moon Pie Festival – Bell Buckle, Tenn.
June 16, 2013  Big Bite Bacon Fest – San Diego, California

If the Theme is Tea, than why not some Chai Tea Gelato? Its awesome and comes in both soy and dairy based!