Welcome to your Morning Cuppa for December 31st, 2007
Today is New Years Eve, National Champagne Day

I’d like to wish you all a safe and happy new year’s eve. May your hearts be full of joy and contentment in the coming new year. As for the fact that it’s National Champagne day… Well, it just seems fitting, doesn’t it?

Today in Food History:

1600 The British East India Company was incorporated by royal charter. It was created to compete in the East Indian spice trade.
(And if memory serves me right, it made a lot of enemies in the process.) 1841 Alabama becomes the first state to issue dental licenses.
(Gee, I was just positive that the barber did a better job!)

1853 A New Years Eve dinner party for 21 scientists was held inside a life size model of an Iguanodon dinosaur on the grounds of the Crystal palace in London. Sculptor Benjamin W. Hawkins had teamed up with paleontologist Richard Owen to create more than 2 dozen lifesize models of dinosaurs for a special exhibit.
(Eat while being eaten… An interesting concept to say the least…)

1917 Sugar rationing began in Britain as a result of WW I
(Kinda sucked for all those dentists)

1938 The Harger ‘Drunkometer’, the first alcohol breath testing device, was introduced in Indiana.
(So he’s the @#~@!# responsible!)

Your Morning Recipe:

Today I just though I’d leave you with some champagne drink recipes . Enjoy, Y’all!

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