Welcome to your Morning Cuppa for February 1st, 2008

Today is National National Baked Alaska Day

Who would have thought that there would be a day attributed to a dish that lies to you with its very name.  Go figure.
Today in Food History:
(sorry for the lack of quips today, folks.  I’m still feeling a bit under the weather, so it’s just the news, for News sake today.)

1939 State Assemblyman Seeder introduced a bill to the Maine Legislature to make it illegal to use tomatoes in clam chowder.

1953 James Lewis Kraft died. Founder of Kraft Co. a wholesale cheese distributor and producer. In 1916 he patented pasteurized process cheese, a low cost cheese that would not spoil. Not a great hit with the public, but the U.S. army purchased over 6 million tins of it during WW I. During the depression, it became popular because of its low cost.

1960 Four ‘colored’ students from the Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter in Woolworth’s and ordered coffee. They were refused service, but made history.

1982 Wolfgang Puck and his wife & partner, Barbara Lazaroff, opened their restaurant ‘Spago’ in Los Angeles

1982 A cow in Cuba, named Ubre Blanca, set a world record when it produced 28 gallons of milk in one day, which is about 4 times an average cow’s daily output. Ubre Blanca later set the record for total output during a 305 day lactation period of 6,405 gallons.

Today in food history information is gathered by FoodReference.com . Check out their food trivia quizzes and more!

(Commentary following the facts is my own doing…  don’t blame FoodReference!)

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