<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Cream Filled Donut Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Doughnut):
'A doughnut or donut is a type of fried dough confectionery or dessert
food. The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various
forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries,
supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets. Doughnuts are
usually deep-fried from a flour dough, and typically either ring-shaped or
without a hole, and often filled. Other types of batters can also be used,
and various toppings and flavorings are used for different types, such as
sugar, chocolate, or maple glazing. In addition to flour, doughnuts may
also include such ingredients as water, leavening, eggs, milk, sugar,
oil/shortening, natural flavors and/or artificial flavors.
The two most common types are the ring doughnut and the filled
doughnut—which is injected with fruit preserves, cream, custard, or other
sweet fillings. A small spherical piece of dough may be cooked as a
doughnut hole. Once doughnuts have been fried, they may be glazed with a
sugar icing, spread with icing or chocolate, or topped with powdered sugar
or sprinkles or fruit. Other shapes include rings, balls, and flattened
spheres, as well as ear shapes, twists and other forms. Doughnut varieties
are also divided into cake and yeast-risen type doughnuts.
Doughnuts have a disputed history. One theory suggests they were invented
in North America by Dutch settlers, and in the 19th century, doughnuts were
sometimes referred to as one kind of oliekoek (a Dutch word literally
meaning oil cake), a sweetened cake fried in fat.
Hanson Gregory, an American, claimed to have invented the ring-shaped
doughnut in 1847 aboard a lime-trading ship when he was 16 years old.
Gregory was dissatisfied with the greasiness of doughnuts twisted into
various shapes and with the raw center of regular doughnuts. He claimed to
have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship's tin pepper box,
and to have later taught the technique to his mother. Smithsonian Magazine
states that his mother, Elizabeth Gregory, made a wicked deep-fried dough
that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon, along with
lemon rind, and put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough
might not cook through, and called the food 'doughnuts'.
According to anthropologist Paul R. Mullins, the first cookbook mentioning
doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an
appendix of American recipes. By the mid-19th century, the doughnut looked
and tasted like today's doughnut, and was viewed as a thoroughly American
food'. .
[The Hankster says] Yes, I have confirmed (the hard way) that you must whip the cream before piping it into the donut.
* 'National Hoagie Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Submarine sandwich):
'A submarine sandwich, also known as a sub, wedge, hoagie, hero, grinder is
a type of sandwich that consists of a length of bread or roll split
lengthwise and filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and
condiments. The sandwich has no standardized name, with over a dozen
regional variations used across the U.S.
The terms submarine and sub are widespread and not assignable to any
certain region, though many of the localized terms are clustered in the
northeastern United States.
The sandwich originated in several different Italian American communities
in the Northeastern United States from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
Portland, Maine claims to be the birthplace of the Italian sandwich and it
is considered Maine's signature sandwich. The popularity of this
Italian-American cuisine has grown from its origins in Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island to most parts of the United States, Canada, and with the advent of
chain restaurants, is now available in many parts of the world.
The term hoagie originated in the Philadelphia area. The Philadelphia
Bulletin reported, in 1953, that Italians working at the World War I–era
shipyard in Philadelphia known as Hog Island, where emergency shipping was
produced for the war effort, introduced the sandwich by putting various
meats, cheeses, and lettuce between two slices of bread. This became known
as the Hog Island sandwich shortened to Hoggies, then the hoagie
The Philadelphia Almanac and Citizen's Manual offers a different
explanation, that the sandwich was created by early-twentieth-century
street vendors called hokey-pokey men, who sold antipasto salad, meats,
cookies and buns with a cut in it. When Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta
H.M.S. Pinafore opened in Philadelphia in 1879, bakeries produced a long
loaf called the pinafore. Entrepreneurial hokey-pokey men sliced the loaf
in half, stuffed it with antipasto salad, and sold the world's first hoagie
Another explanation is that the word hoagie arose in the late 19th to early
20th century, among the Italian community in South Philadelphia, when on
the hoke was a slang term used to describe a destitute person. Deli owners
would give away scraps of cheeses and meats in an Italian bread-roll known
as a hokie, but the Italian immigrants pronounced it hoagie
Shortly after World War II, there were numerous varieties of the term in
use throughout Philadelphia. By the 1940s, the spellings hoagie and, to a
lesser extent, hoagy had come to dominate less used variations like hoogie
and hoggie By 1955, restaurants throughout the area were using the term
hoagie Listings in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming
widespread in that city by 1966'. .
[The Hankster says] Call them what you like. It's a meal on the go. A sandwich in one hand and a donut in the other.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Walnut Valley National Guitar Flat-Picking Championships Festival'.
September 14-18 in Winfield, Kansas.
- From Wikipedia (Walnut Valley Festival):
'The Walnut Valley Festival (generally referred to as Winfield by
non-residents or simply Bluegrass to Winfield locals) is an acoustic music
festival, held annually in Winfield, Kansas. The main genre of music is
bluegrass, but other acoustic styles are represented. The festival is held
on the Wednesday through Sunday that includes the third Saturday of
September.
Besides the world-class paid performers, Winfield is known for its
instrumental contests. The headline contest is the National Flat-pick
Guitar Championship. Other contests include the National Bluegrass Banjo
Championship, the National Hammer Dulcimer Championship, the National
Mountain Dulcimer championship, the International Autoharp Championship,
the International Fingerstyle Guitar Championship, and contests for fiddle
and mandolin. The festival is also known for its lively audience, which has
at times included the poet and guitarist, Chris Beard'.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'National Health and Physical Education Day'. In Australia by the
Australian Council for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
<> Historical events on September 14
* 'In 1752, The British Empire adopts Gregorian calendar. It's first day is
September 14 (a jump from September 2). There is no September 3 - September
13.
- From Wikipedia: The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar
and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely used civil
calendar. It is named for Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in October
1582.
The calendar was a refinement to the Julian calendar amounting to a 0.002%
correction in the length of the year. The motivation for the reform was to
stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes and
solstices—particularly the vernal equinox, which set the date for Easter
celebrations. Transition to the Gregorian calendar would restore the
holiday to the time of the year in which it was celebrated when introduced
by the early Church. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic
countries of Europe. Protestants and Eastern Orthodox countries continued
to use the traditional Julian calendar and adopted the Gregorian reform
after a time, for the sake of convenience in international trade. The last
European country to adopt the reform was Greece, in 1923.
'Most Western European countries changed the start of the year to 1 January
before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. For example, Scotland changed
the start of the Scottish New Year to 1 January in 1600 (this means that
1599 was a short year). England, Ireland and the British colonies changed
the start of the year to 1 January in 1752 (so 1751 was a short year with
only 282 days) though in England the start of the tax year remained at 25
March (O.S.), 5 April (N.S.) till 1800, when it moved to 6 April. Later in
1752 in September the Gregorian calendar was introduced throughout Britain
and the British colonies. These two reforms were implemented by the
Calendar (New Style) Act 1750.
In some countries, an official decree or law specified that the start of
the year should be 1 January. For such countries a specific year when a 1
January-year became the norm can be identified. In other countries the
customs varied, and the start of the year moved back and forth as fashion
and influence from other countries dictated various customs'.
* 'In1868, Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one (Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th
hole). .
- From Wikipedia: Thomas Morris (20 April 1851 – 25 December 1875), known
as Young Tom Morris, was a Scottish professional golfer. He is considered
one of the pioneers of professional golf, and was the first young prodigy
in golf history. He won four consecutive titles in the Open Championship,
an unmatched feat, and did this by the age of 21.
'Young Tom won the Open Championship in 1868, 1869, 1870, and 1872 (there
was no Open Championship in 1871). No one else has since repeated this feat
of four straight Open Championships. All four championships were played at
Prestwick Golf Club, the course where he had learned golf as a youth. His
1868 win, at the age of 17, made him the youngest major champion in golf
history, a record which still stands. That same year, his father finished
second to him, a unique family occurrence in the Championship. In 1869,
Young Tom achieved the tournament's first ever hole-in-one by holing out at
the 166-yard 8th hole: the scorecard is on display in Prestwick's
clubhouse. In keeping with the Rules of the Tournament, Young Tom was
allowed to keep the original Championship Belt, made of red Moroccan
leather with an engraved golf scene on its front silver buckle and funded
by Prestwick's members, after his hat-trick of victories. The famous Claret
Jug was purchased for the tournament in 1873, and his became the first name
to be engraved on it, as he had won the Open Championship in 1872. During
his 1870 win, he began the tournament by scoring a 3 on the first hole of
578 yards, using hickory shafts and a guttie ball, holing a long fairway
shot of about 200 yards given the distances which were possible at that
time, this may have been the first-ever albatross (double eagle), assuming
a par of 6 for that hole the term 'par' had not yet been formally invented.
His first-round Open score in 1870 of 47 over the 12-hole Prestwick course
was the first competitive round anywhere which averaged under four strokes
per hole. The Tom Morrises, father and son, frequently competed as partners
against all challengers for match stakes, winning most of the time,
although their success rate dropped once Old Tom passed 50, as he sometimes
struggled with his putting. Young Tom also toured Scotland and parts of
England, both on his own and with fellow golfer Davie Strath, playing
exhibition matches on their own account, without official sanction this was
the first time this had been done. Young Tom and Strath received some
criticism for this, as it challenged the established structure of
competition at that time. They were also the first players to insist on
receiving money up front before a match was to be held this was the
foundation of appearance money, and prior to this the players were at the
mercy of the result and the match's patrons. Morris also bet against
members and other takers at St Andrews that he could score below a given
standard over the Old Course, and won seven times straight. This form of
betting was also an innovation at the time'.
* 'In 1901, U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination
attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore
Roosevelt. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The 25th President of the United States, William
McKinley, was shot and fatally wounded on September 6, 1901, inside the
Temple of Music on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo,
New York. McKinley was shaking hands with the public when he was shot by
Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. The President died on September 14 from
gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. McKinley became the third American
president to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James
A. Garfield in 1881'.
* 'In 1927, Gene Austin recorded 'My Blue Heaven'.
- From Wikipedia: 'it charted for 26 weeks, stayed at #1 for 13, and sold
over five million copies becoming one of the best selling singles of all
time'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'My Blue Heaven is a popular song written by Walter
Donaldson with lyrics by George A. Whiting. It has become part of various
fake book collections.
In 1928, My Blue Heaven became a huge hit on Victor 20964-A for crooner
Gene Austin, accompanied by the Victor Orchestra as directed by Nat
Shilkret it charted for 26 weeks, stayed at #1 for 13, and sold over five
million copies becoming one of the best selling singles of all time. Victor
20964-A was recorded on September 14, 1927 and was inducted into the Grammy
Hall of Fame in 1978 the recording was reissued as Victor 24573 and has
been reissued on several commercially available CDs.
In 1928, Blue Amberol Records released an instrumental piano version by
Muriel Pollock (issue number 5471).
Austin, unhappy with the Victor Company and convinced that the best
material which he brought to the company’s attention was going to other
artists, gave Nat Shilkret an ultimatum that he wouldn’t do another session
unless his interpretation was commercially released. According to Austin,
an agreement was reached for My Blue Heaven to be coupled with Are You
Thinking of Me Tonight?, the most highly regarded song among those he was
planning to record at that time. On the day My Blue Heaven was to be
recorded, after takes of the other songs had been completed, to Austin's
surprise the musicians packed up and left the studio Shilkret told Austin
they had a conflict, but in a scene documented by H. Allen Smith in his A
Short History of Fingers, Austin grabbed an old guy with a cello and talked
him into standing by. Then grabbed a song plugger who could play pretty
fair piano. And the third fellow got was an agent who could whistle – bird
calls and that sort of thing. Austin recorded My Blue Heaven with that
hastily assembled trio'.
* 'In 1960, Chubby Checker's 'The Twist' hits #1. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Twist is an American pop song written and originally
released in early 1959 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to
Teardrops on Your Letter Ballard's version was a moderate 1960 hit, peaking
at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song gave birth to the Twist
dance craze. His single became a hit, reaching number 1 on the Billboard
Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a
record as the only song to reach number 1 in two different chart runs when
it resurfaced and topped the chart again for two weeks starting on January
13, 1962.
In 1988, The Twist again became popular due to a new recording of the song
by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in
the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, Billboard magazine
declared the song the biggest hit of the 1960s'.
* 'In 1965, The comedy TV show 'F-Troop' premieres. .
- From Wikipedia: 'F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom about
U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s that
originally aired for two seasons on ABC. It debuted in the United States on
September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of
65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was broadcast in
black-and-white, the second season in color.
The series relied heavily on character-based humor verbal and visual gags,
slapstick, physical comedy and burlesque comedy make up the prime
ingredients of F Troop. The series played fast and loose with historical
events and persons, and often parodied them for comical effect. There were
some indirect references made to the culture of the 1960s such as a
Playbrave Club (a parody of a Playboy Club) and imitations of rock and roll
bands (including singing songs written in the 1960s).
F Troop is set at Fort Courage — a fictional United States Army outpost in
the Old West—from just at the end of the American Civil War in 1865 to at
least 1867. There is a town of the same name adjacent to the fort. Fort
Courage was named for fictitious General Sam Courage (portrayed by Cliff
Arquette), who has been in the Army for forty years. The fort itself is in
the stockade style stereotypically found in most American westerns'.
* 'In 1978, 'Mork and Mindy' premiered on ABC-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Mork and Mindy is an American sitcom broadcast from 1978
to 1982 on ABC. It stars Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who
comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-Orkan egg-shaped
spaceship. Pam Dawber co-stars as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and
roommate.
The series is a spin-off of the sitcom Happy Days. The character of Mork is
played by a then-unknown Robin Williams, who impressed producer Garry
Marshall with his quirky comedic ability as soon as they met. When Williams
was asked to take a seat at the audition, Williams immediately sat on his
head on the chair and Marshall cast him on the spot, and later wryly
commented that Williams was the only alien who auditioned for the role'.
* 'In 1984, Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon
alone across the Atlantic Ocean. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a
retired Colonel in the United States Air Force and a USAF Command Pilot.
Following his initial operational assignment in fighter aircraft, he
participated in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior in 1960, setting a
world record for the highest skydive from a height greater than 31
kilometres (19 mi). He was also the first man to make a solo crossing of
the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.
Kittinger retired from the Air Force as a Colonel in 1978 and initially
went to work for Martin Marietta (now Lockheed Martin) Corporation in
Orlando, Florida. He later became Vice President of Flight Operations for
Rosie O'Grady's Flying Circus, part of the Rosie O'Grady's/Church Street
Station entertainment complex in Orlando, prior to the parent company's
dissolution.
Still interested in ballooning, he set a gas balloon world distance record
for the AA-06 size class (since broken) of 3,221.23 km in 1983. He then
completed the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic in the 106,000
cubic foot (3,000 m³) Balloon of Peace, from September 14 to September 18,
1984 organized by the Canadian promoter Gaetan Croteau. As an official FAI
world aerospace record, it is the longest gas balloon distance flight ever
recorded in the AA-10 size category (5,703.03 km). For the second time in
his life, he was also the subject of a story in National Geographic
Magazine'.
* 'In 1984, The MTV Awards were held for the first time.
- From Wikipedia: 'An MTV Video Music Award (commonly abbreviated as a VMA)
is an award presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the
music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy
Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony
has often been called the Super Bowl for youth, an acknowledgment of the
VMA ceremony's ability to draw millions of youth from teens to
20-somethings each year. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award. The
statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest
representations of MTV, and colloquially called a moonman The statue was
conceived by Manhattan Design—also designers of the original MTV logo—based
on the 1981 Top of the Hour animation created by Fred Seibert, produced by
Alan Goodman, and produced by Buzz Potamkin at Buzzco Associates. The
statue is now made by New York firm, Society Awards. Since the 2006
ceremony, viewers are able to vote for their favorite videos in all general
categories by visiting MTV's website'.
* 'In 1985, The Golden Girls a television sitcom premieres on NBC. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan
Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9,
1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons.
An ensemble cast, the show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue
McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, as four older women who share a home in
Miami, Florida. It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in
association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas,
and Harris served as the original executive producers'.
The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and
won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Comedy Series twice. It also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best
Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four stars received an
Emmy Award (from multiple nominations during the series' run), making it
one of only three sitcoms in the award's history to achieve this. The
series also ranked among the top ten highest-rated programs for six out of
its seven seasons. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on
its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of
America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best
Written TV Series of All Time'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in September
Food
All American Breakfast Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Histiocytosis Awareness Month
Hunger Action Month
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Prime Beef Month
kNational Rice Month
National Shake Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month
Health
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
888222707Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Cholesterol Education Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month
ITP Awareness Month
World Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
Mold Awareness Month
National Campus Safety Awareness Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National DNA, Geonomics and Stem Cell Education Month
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National ITP Awareness Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Pediculosis Prevention Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
Pain Awareness Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Self Improvement Month
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Superior Relationships Month
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month
World Alzheimer's Month
Animal / Pets
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
Happy Cat Month
International/National Guide Dogs Month
National Pet Memorial Month
National Save A Tiger Month
National Service Dog Month
Save The Koala Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
Other
Be Kind To Editors and Writers Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
College Savings Month
Fall Hat Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Women's Friendship Month
Library Card Sign-up Month
National Coupon Month
National Home Furnishings Month
National Passport Awareness Month
National Sewing Month
National Translators Month
National Piano Month
National Wilderness Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Update Your Resume Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month
September is:
September origin (from Wikipedia): Originally September (Latin septem, "seven") was the seventh of ten months on the oldest known Roman calendar.
September in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Southern Hemisphere.
After the calendar reform that added January and February to the beginning of the year, September became the ninth month, but retained its name. It had 29 days until the Julian reform, which added a day.
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