TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

- Farmers Day
- National Peanut Cluster Day
- China: Festival of the Earth Goddess

1824 Jean Jacques Regis de Cambaceres died. A French politician and gourmet, a contemporary and rival of Talleyrand and Carême. The dinners he gave were famous, and Cambaceres closely supervised the food preparation. He refused to admit late-comers, and was also said to have demanded complete silence while dining.

1902 Tom Blake was born. The inventor of the modern surf board.

1923 The Coca Cola 6 bottle carton was introduced.

1941 American author Sherwood Anderson supposedly swallowed a toothpick or a swizzle stick while at a cocktail party in the Panama Canal Zone, and died of peritonitis.

1992 Christian K. Nelson inventor of the Eskimo Pie died at age 98.

Sourced from Food Referen