From Rudy’s – A Cooks Paradise in Twin Falls, we get some interesting trivia. This is really a good Newsletter that I highly recommend.

“This Week in the History of Food & Drink:

Feb. 9, 1854: Coffee County, Georgia was founded.

Feb. 10, 1944: Author Frances Moore Lappe was born. She is the author of the best selling ‘Diet for a Small Planet’ (1971) which indirectly encouraged a vegetarian diet, by demonstrating that raising animals for food was an extremely wasteful use of resources. Also: ‘World Hunger: 12 Myths’, ‘Food First’, ‘Taking Population Seriously’.

Feb. 11: Paul Bocuse, French chef, was born at Collonges-au-Mont-d’Or, France. He is known as one of the founders of ‘nouvelle cuisine’.

Feb. 12, 1791: Peter Cooper was born. American inventor and founder of the ‘Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.’ He also obtained the first American patent for the manufacture of gelatin. In 1895, a cough syrup manufacturer, Pearl B. Wait purchased the patent and developed a packaged gelatin dessert. Wait’s wife, May David Wait named it Jell-O.

Feb. 13, 1967: The Beatles single ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is released.

Feb. 14: Happy Valentine’s Day-Don’t forget the chocolate!

Feb. 15, 1758: Benjamin Jackson advertised mustard for sale for the first time in America. The advertisement was in the Philadelphia Chronicle, and claimed Jackson was the first and only manufacturer of mustard in America”

Interesting trivia!