Tips To Avoid Overeating
My Tips To Avoid Overeating By Tina Haupert, Author of Carrots ‘N’ Cake: Healthy Living One Carrot and Cupcake At A Time Overeating is the worst feeling. I feel like I have been defeated — like my cravings have taken over and I am powerless to resist them. I feel weak and disappointed in myself. I try not to let these feelings take over because I know nothing good can come from them. But here I am, blogging about healthy living and trying to set a good example for...
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- May Day - National Chocolate Parfait Day 1927 Imperial Airways became the first British airline to serve hot meals. 1991 Charles Elton died. Elton was an English biologist who first developed the idea of a ‘food chain.’ 2001 Hindus in Seattle filled suit against McDonald’s restaurant chain for not disclosing the use of beef flavoring in its French Fries. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscri
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1920 That damn Prohibition starts! Speakeasies begin. Coffee, soft drinks, and ice cream sodas skyrocket in sales. Broccoli becomes popular due to Italian immigrants in California. Before their cultivation, broccoli was for the rich only. Iceberg lettuce is all the rage. Wonderbread is born. La Choy Food Products is born in Detroit. Sprouts are the first to be canned. 1921 White Castle hamburgers is born in Wichita, Kansas. For 5 cents, anyone can have one of these bite-sized...
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National Oatmeal Cookie Day 1792 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich died. Captain Cook named the Sandwich Islands after him (now known as Hawaii). He is supposed to have invented the sandwich as a quick meal so as not to interrupt his gambling sessions. 1904 The Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened in St. Louis (St. Louis World’s Fair). It was at the Fair that the ice cream cone was supposed to have been invented. The hot dog and iced tea were also popularized at the Fair. 1955...
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National Shrimp Scampi Day 1988 McDonald’s announced it will be opening 20 Moscow restaurants. They will serve Bolshoi Mak instead of Big Macs. 1989 Donald Deskey died. An industrial designer, he designed the packaging for Tide laundry detergent and Crest toothpaste among others. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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National Blueberry Pie Day 1789 The most famous mutiny in history took place on the English ship, ‘Bounty’, against Captain William Bligh. The ship was sailing to Tahiti to bring back breadfruit trees. 1796 ‘American Cookery’ by Amelia Simmons is published in Hartford. It is the first cookbook written by an American. This is one of the classic cookbooks that can be found on the Food Reference Website. 1940 Italian operatic soprano, Louisia Tetrazzini, died. Chicken...
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National Prime Rib Day St. Zita feast day, patron of servants. 1773 The British Parliament passed the ‘Tea Act,’ one of the events that led to the American Revolution. 1865 Cornell University was chartered. Cornell is an agricultural land grant university endowed by Ezra Cornell, one of the founders of Western Union Telegraph Co. Today, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, offers many programs, including Agricultural and Life Sciences, Hotel Administration, and Nutritional...
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National Pretzel Day 1877 Minnesota held a state day of prayer to plead for an end to a 4 year plague of Rocky Mountain locusts. In southwestern Minnesota, locusts had been eating crops, trees, tobacco, fence posts, leather, dead animals, sheep’s wool – everything but the mortgage. Two days later a snowstorm moved through and the locusts were never seen again. No one knows what caused the locust plague, nor why the Rocky Mountain locust became extinct after the plague. 1986...
Read MoreApril 25th in Food History
- National Zucchini Bread Day - St. Mark’s Day, patron of cattle breeders. 1856 Charles Luttwedge Dodgson met a little girl named Alice Liddell. Alice had a penchant for consuming unknown (and apparently psychoactive) food, pills and liquids that she found while exploring a very large rabbit hole. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day 1766 Robert Bailey Thomas was born. He was the founder and long time editor of the ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ now known as the ‘Old Farmer’s Almanac.’ 1833 Jacob Ebert and George Dulty patented the first soda fountain. Not many soda fountains around anymore. 1914 Justin Wilson, Cajun chef and humorist was born. He wrote five cookbooks and hosted several cooking shows on TV, including ‘Louisiana Cookin’ and...
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