Rudy's Cooks ParadiseIt is great to get these food trivia articles from Rudy’s. Here is the latest one for Thanksgiving week. Enjoy!

This Week in the History of Food & Drink

November 23, 1921: President Harding signs the Willis Campell Act, which prohibits doctors from prescribing beer or liquor.

November 24, 1762: The first written record of the word ‘sandwich’. Edward Gibbons Journal, 11/24/1762: ‘I dined at the Cocoa Tree… Twenty or thirty of the first men in the kingdom…supping at little tables…upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich.’- I’ll give a toast to Mr. Gibbons when I snack on a turkey sandwich this Friday.

November 25, 1884: John Mayenberg, of St. Louis, Missouri, patented evaporated milk.

November 26, 2009: Happy Thanksgiving!

November 27, 1924: The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was originally called a Christmas Parade.

November 28, 1863: Thanksgiving was first celebrated as a regular American Holiday.

November 29: National Chocolate Day

Everyone have a Happy Thanksgiving!!