<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Sausage Pizza Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Pizza):
'Pizza is a flatbread generally topped with tomato sauce and cheese and
baked in an oven. It is commonly topped with a selection of meats,
vegetables and condiments. The term was first recorded in the 10th century,
in a Latin manuscript from Gaeta in Central Italy. The modern pizza was
invented in Naples, Italy, and the dish and its variants have since become
popular in many areas of the world.
In 2009, upon Italy's request, Neapolitan pizza was safeguarded in the
European Union as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed dish. The
Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (the True Neapolitan Pizza
Association) is a non-profit organization founded in 1984 with headquarters
in Naples. It promotes and protects the true Neapolitan pizza
Pizza is sold fresh or frozen, either whole or in portions, and is a common
fast food item in Europe and North America. Various types of ovens are used
to cook them and many varieties exist. Several similar dishes are prepared
from ingredients commonly used in pizza preparation, such as calzone and
stromboli'. .
[The Hankster says] Only if the sausage is Pepperoni.
* 'National Food Truck Day Weekend'. . At Clearfork Food Park,Ft Worth TX.
- From Wikipedia (Food truck):
'A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. Some,
including ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food others have
on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch. Sandwiches, hamburgers,
french fries, and other regional fast food fare is common. In recent years,
associated with the pop-up restaurant phenomenon, food trucks offering
gourmet cuisine and a variety of specialties and ethnic menus, have become
particularly popular. Food trucks, along with portable food booths and food
carts, are on the front line of the street food industry that serves an
estimated 2.5 billion people every day.
n the United States, the Texas chuckwagon is a precursor to the American
food truck. In the later 1800s, herding cattle from the Southwest to
markets in the North and East kept cowhands on the trail for months at a
time. In 1866, the father of the Texas Panhandle, Charles Goodnight, a
Texas cattle rancher, fitted a sturdy old United States Army wagon with
interior shelving and drawers, and stocked it with kitchenware, food and
medical supplies. Food consisted of dried beans, coffee, cornmeal, greasy
cloth-wrapped bacon, salt pork, beef, usually dried or salted or smoked,
and other easy to preserve food stuffs. The wagon was also stocked with a
water barrel and a sling to kindle wood to heat and cook food.
Another early relative of the modern food truck is the lunch wagon, as
conceived by food vendor Walter Scott in 1872. Scott cut windows in a small
covered wagon, parked it in front of a newspaper office in Providence Rhode
Island, and sold sandwiches, pies and coffee to pressmen and journalists.
By the 1880s, former lunch-counter boy, Thomas H. Buckley, was
manufacturing lunch wagons in Worcester, Massachusetts. He introduced
various models, like the Owl and the White House Cafe, with features that
included sinks, refrigerators and cooking stoves, also colored windows and
other ornamentation.
Later versions of the food truck were mobile canteens, which were created
in the late 1950s. These mobile canteens were authorized by the U.S. Army
and operated on stateside army bases.
Mobile food trucks, nicknamed roach coaches or gut trucks, have been around
for years, serving construction sites, factories, and other blue-collar
locations. In big cities of the U.S. the food truck traditionally provided
a means for the on-the-go person to grab a quick bite at a low cost. Food
trucks are not only sought out for their affordability but as well for
their nostalgia and their popularity continues to rise.
n recent years, the food truck resurgence was fueled by a combination of
post-recessionary factors. Due to an apparent combination of economic and
technological factors combined with street food being hip or chic, there
has been an increase in the number of food trucks in the United States. The
construction business was drying up, leading to a surplus of food trucks,
and chefs from high-end restaurants were being laid off. For experienced
cooks suddenly without work, the food truck seemed a clear choice.
Once more commonplace in American coastal big cities like New York and LA,
gourmet food trucks are now to be found as well in the suburbs, and in
small towns across the country. Food trucks are also being hired for
special events, like weddings, movie shoots, and corporate gatherings, and
also to carry advertising promoting companies and brands'.
[The Hankster says] Fast food from a fast vehicle. Got to love it. Of course, the fun starts, when it stops.
* 'Southern Food Heritage Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Cuisine of the Southern United States):
'The cuisine of the Southern United States is the historical regional
culinary form of states generally south of the Mason–Dixon line dividing
Pennsylvania and Delaware from Maryland as well as along the Ohio River,
and extending west to southern Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.
The most notable influences come from African, English, Scottish, Irish,
French, and Native American cuisines. Tidewater, Appalachian, Creole,
Lowcountry, and Floribbean are examples of types of Southern cuisine. In
recent history, elements of Southern cuisine have spread north, having an
effect on the development of other types of American cuisine.
Many elements of Southern cooking—squash, tomatoes, corn (and its
derivatives, including grits), and deep-pit barbecuing—are borrowings from
southeast American Indian tribes such as the Caddo, Choctaw, and Seminole.
Sugar, flour, milk, and eggs come from Europe the Southern fondness for
fried foods is Scottish, and the old-fashioned Virginian use of ragouts
comes from the West Country of England. Black-eyed peas, okra, rice,
eggplant, benne (sesame) seed, sorghum, and melons, as well as most spices
used in the South, are originally African a preponderance of slaves
imported to Virginia in early years were Igbo from the Bight of Biafra, and
down to the present day Southern and Nigerian cuisines have many flavors
and elements in common.
The South's fondness for a full breakfast (as opposed to a Continental one
with a simple bread item and drink) derives from the British full breakfast
or fry-up, variously known as the full English breakfast, full Scottish,
full Irish, full Welsh, and Ulster Fry. Many Southern foodways, especially
in Appalachia, are Scottish or Border meals adapted to the new subtropical
climate pork, informally taboo in Scotland, takes the place of lamb and
mutton, and instead of chopped oats, Southerners eat chopped hominy
(although oatmeal is much more common now than it once was).
Parts of the South have other cuisines, though. Creole cuisine is mostly
vernacular French, West African and Spanish Floribbean cuisine is
Spanish-based with obvious Caribbean influences and Tex-Mex has
considerable Mexican and Native American influences.
A traditional Southern meal is pan-fried chicken, field peas (such as
black-eyed peas), greens (such as collard greens, mustard greens, turnip
greens, or poke salad), mashed potatoes, cornbread or corn pone, sweet tea,
and dessert—typically a pie (sweet potato, chess, shoofly, pecan, and peach
are the most common), or a cobbler (peach, blackberry, sometimes apple in
Kentucky or Appalachia).
Other Southern foods include grits, country ham, hushpuppies, beignets,
Southern styles of succotash, chicken fried steak, buttermilk biscuits (may
be served with butter, jelly, fruit preserves, honey, gravy or sorghum
molasses), pimento cheese, boiled or baked sweet potatoes, pit barbecue
(especially ribs), fried catfish, fried green tomatoes, bread pudding, okra
(fried, steamed, stewed, sauteed, or pickled), butter beans, pinto beans,
and black-eyed peas.
Fried chicken is among the region's best-known exports. It is believed that
the Scots, and later Scottish immigrants to many southern states had a
tradition of deep frying chicken in fat, unlike their English counterparts
who baked or boiled chicken. Pork is an integral part of the cuisine.
Stuffed ham is served in Southern Maryland. A traditional holiday
get-together featuring whole hog barbecue is known in Virginia and the
Carolinas as a pig pickin' Green beans are often flavored with bacon and
salt pork, turnip greens are stewed with pork and served with vinegar, ham
biscuits (biscuits cut in half with slices of salt ham served between the
halves) often accompany breakfast, and ham with red-eye gravy or country
gravy is a common dinner dish.
Southern meals, especially among the poor of both races (and historically
among slaves), sometimes consist only of vegetables, with a little meat
(especially salt pork) used in cooking but with no meat dish served. Beans
and greens—white or brown beans served alongside a mess of greens stewed
with a little bacon—is a traditional meal in many parts of the South.
(Turnip greens are the typical greens for such a meal they're cooked with
some diced turnip and a piece of fatback.) Other low-meat Southern meals
include beans and cornbread—the beans being pinto beans stewed with ham or
bacon—and Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas, rice, onions, red or green pepper,
and bacon).
Coleslaw is also popular, both as a side dish and on a variety of barbecued
and fried meats. Apart from it, though, Southern cooking makes little use
of cabbage'. .
[The Hankster says] I'm absolutely sure that Pizza is a Southern food. It is in my house, anyway.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'General Pulaski Memorial Day'.
Since 1929. From Wikipedia: 'This holiday is held every year on October 11
by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death from wounds suffered
at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the heritage of
Polish Americans'. Chicago holds a regional event each year at another
time.
- From Wikipedia (General Pulaski Memorial Day):
'General Pulaski Memorial Day is a United States holiday in honor of
General Kazimierz Pulaski (spelled Casimir Pulaski in English), a Polish
hero of the American Revolution. This holiday is held every year on October
11 by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death from wounds
suffered at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the
heritage of Polish Americans. The observance was established in 1929 when
Congress passed a resolution (Public Resolution 16 of 1929) designating
October 11 as General Pulaski Memorial Day. Every President has issued a
proclamation for the observance annually since (except in 1930).
This is separate holiday from the regional holiday in the Chicago area
titled Casimir Pulaski Day that commemorates Pulaski's birth on March 4,
1746.
The Siege of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War in
1779. The year before, the city of Savannah, Georgia had been captured by a
British expeditionary corps under Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell.
The siege itself consisted of a joint Franco-American attempt to retake
Savannah from September 16, 1779 to October 18, 1779. On October 9, 1779, a
major assault against the British siege works failed. During the attack,
Polish Count Kazimierz Pulaski, fighting on the American side, was mortally
wounded. With the failure of the joint American-French attack, the siege
failed, and the British remained in control of Georgia until July 1782,
close to the end of the war.
The battle is much remembered in Haitian history the Fontages Legion,
consisting of over 500 gens de couleur—free men of color from
Saint-Domingue—fought on the French side. Henri Christophe, who later
became king of independent Haiti, is thought to have been among these
troops.
In 2005 archaeologists with the Coastal Heritage Society and the LAMAR
Institute discovered portions of the British fortifications at Spring Hill.
The brunt of the combined French and American attack on October 9, 1779,
was focused at that point. The find represents the first tangible remains
of the battlefield. In 2008 the CHS/LAMAR Institute archaeology team
discovered another segment of the British fortifications in Madison
Square'.
* 'It's My Party Day'.
[The Hankster says] It's yours, do what you want.
* 'Ada Lovelace Day'.
Second Tuesday in October. Focus on women in science. She is considered the
first computer programmer.
- From Wikipedia (Ada Lovelace):
'Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron 10 December 1815 –
27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known
for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose
computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is
recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine.
As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace was the only legitimate child of the poet George, Lord Byron
and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke (Annabella), Lady Wentworth. All
Byron's other children were born out of wedlock to other women. Byron
separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever
four months later, eventually dying of disease in the Greek War of
Independence when Ada was eight years old. Her mother remained bitter
towards Lord Byron and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in
an effort to prevent her from developing what she saw as the insanity seen
in her father, but Ada remained interested in him despite this (and was,
upon her eventual death, buried next to him at her request). Often ill, she
spent most of her childhood sick. Ada married William King in 1835. King
was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, and she became Countess of Lovelace.
Her educational and social exploits brought her into contact with
scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone,
Michael Faraday and the author Charles Dickens, which she used to further
her education. Ada described her approach as poetical science and herself
as an Analyst ( and Metaphysician)
When she was a teenager, her mathematical talents led her to an ongoing
working relationship and friendship with fellow British mathematician
Charles Babbage, also known as 'the father of computers', and in
particular, Babbage's work on the Analytical Engine. Lovelace first met him
in June 1833, through their mutual friend, and her private tutor, Mary
Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Ada translated an article by Italian
military engineer Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with
an elaborate set of notes, simply called Notes. These notes contain what
many consider to be the first computer program—that is, an algorithm
designed to be carried out by a machine. Lovelace's notes are important in
the early history of computers. She also developed a vision of the
capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching,
while many others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those
capabilities. Her mind-set of poetical science led her to ask questions
about the Analytical Engine (as shown in her notes) examining how
individuals and society relate to technology as a collaborative tool.
She died of uterine cancer in 1852 at the age of 36'.
* 'Face Your Fears Day'.
[The Hankster says] Willie S. said it "To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them".
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Myths and Legends Day For All Fantasy Movie, Books and Legends
Cephalopods'. During Cephalopod Awareness Days.
o Other:
* 'International Day of the Girl Child'. Annually on October 11, by the
U.N.
- From Wikipedia (International Day of the Girl Child):
'International Day of the Girl Child is an international observance day
declared by the United Nations it is also called the Day of the Girl and
the International Day of the Girl. October 11, 2012, was the first Day of
the Girl. The observation supports more opportunity for girls and increases
awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their
gender. This inequality includes areas such as right to education/access to
education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care, and protection from
discrimination, violence against women and unfree child marriage.
The International Day of the Girl Child initiative began as a project of
Plan International, a non-governmental organization that operates
worldwide. The idea for an international day of observance and celebration
grew out of Plan International's Because I Am a Girl campaign, which raises
awareness of the importance of nurturing girls globally and in developing
countries in particular. Plan International representatives in Canada
approached the Canadian federal government to seek to the coalition of
supporters raised awareness of the initiative internationally.
Each year's Day of the Girl has a theme the first was ending child
marriage, the second, in 2013, was innovating for girl's education, the
third, in 2014, was Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of
Violence. and the fourth, in 2015 was The Power of Adolescent Girl: Vision
for 2030'.
<> Historical events on October 11
* 'In 1950, CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for
broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A field-sequential color system is a color television
system in which the primary color information is transmitted in successive
images, and which relies on the human vision system to fuse the successive
images into a color picture. One field-sequential system was developed by
Dr. Peter Goldmark for CBS, which was its sole user in commercial
broadcasting. It was first demonstrated to the press on September 4, 1940,
and first shown to the general public on January 12, 1950. The Federal
Communications Commission adopted it on October 11, 1950 as the standard
for color television in the United States, but it was later withdrawn.
The concept of sequential color systems in moving images predates the
invention of fully electronic television. Although known contemporarily as
additive rather than sequential color systems, two-color Kinemacolor, in
commercial use since 1906, and its predecessor three-color format invented
by Edward Raymond Turner and patented in 1899, were both sequential natural
color systems utilizing rotating color wheels, where each sequential image
alternatingly included a different color's information and was dyed such in
order to merge in the viewer's eye during projection, and were used for
natural color motion picture film. When due to litigation by William
Friese-Greene, Kinemacolor ended up in the public domain by c. 1914, many
derivative sequential color processes (such as Friese-Greene's Biocolour or
the original Prisma Color) were developed that were in use until the late
1920s, with increasing rivalry by bipack color processes since c. 1920 that
were not using sequential color anymore'.
* 'In 1968, NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo
mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter
Cunningham aboard. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried
out by the United States of America. It was the first mission in the United
States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first
U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in
November 1966. The AS-204 mission, also known as Apollo 1, was intended to
be the first manned flight of the Apollo program, scheduled to launch in
February 1967. However, a fire in the cabin during a January 1967 test
killed the crew. Manned flights were then suspended for 21 months, while
the cause of the accident was investigated and improvements made to the
spacecraft and safety procedures, and unmanned test flights of the Saturn V
rocket and Apollo Lunar Module were made. Apollo 7 essentially fulfilled
Apollo 1's mission of testing the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) in
low Earth orbit.
The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with senior pilot /
navigator Donn F. Eisele, and pilot / systems engineer R. Walter
Cunningham. (Official crew titles were made consistent with those that
would be used for the manned lunar landing missions: Eisele was Command
Module Pilot and Cunningham was Lunar Module Pilot.) Their mission was
Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the
redesigned Block II CSM with a crew on board. It was the first time a
Saturn IB vehicle put a crew into space Apollo 7 was the first three-person
American space mission, and the first to include a live TV broadcast from
an American spacecraft. It was successfully launched on October 11, 1968,
from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida.
Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a
complete technical success, giving NASA the confidence to send Apollo 8
into orbit around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would
prove to be the final space flight for all of its three crew members when
it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on October 22, 1968. It was also the
final manned launch from Cape Kennedy'.
* 'In 1975, The TV show 'Saturday Night Live' premieres. It is still
running as of 2015 in it's 41st season. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American
late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne
Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on
October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's
comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are
performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members.
Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an
opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features
performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold
open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live
from New York, it's Saturday Night!, properly beginning the show'.
* 'In 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of
General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479
is approved by President Gerald R. Ford. .
* 'In 1983, The last hand-cranked telephones in the US went out of service.
The customers moved to direct-dial. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Many early manual telephones had an attached
hand-cranked magneto that produced an alternating current (AC) at 50-100V
for signaling to ring the bells of other telephones on the same (party)
line and to alert an operator at the local telephone exchange. These were
most common on long rural lines served by small manual exchanges which did
not use a common battery circuit. The telephone instrument contained a
local battery, consisting of two large N° 6 zinc-carbon dry cells, to
provide the necessary current for the transmitter. By around 1900, large
racks of motor-generator sets in the telephone exchange could supply this
ringing current remotely instead and the local magneto was often no longer
required, but their use continued into the mid-20th century.
Telephone magnetos featured a large gear rotated by hand with a handle,
that drove a much smaller gear on the armature rotor, providing a high
gear-ratio to increase the rotational speed of the magneto armature. A
mechanical switch on the output terminals engaged only when the rotor was
turning, so that the magneto was normally disconnected from the telephone
circuitry.
Ringing current magnetos were used in the public switched telephone network
(PSTN) as late as the 1980s, when they were still used with private manual
branch exchanges (PMBX), small business switchboards worked by operators.
Rather than have a motor generator set for such a small installation, which
generated noise and required maintenance, these systems used a hand
magneto. Unlike on the public telephone network, which has a standard
ringing cadence (the repeating pattern of ringing and silence), the ringing
cadence on a PMBX depended upon the skill of the operator. When ringing
local extensions, some switchboard operators used local codes of ringing to
indicate internal, external or urgent calls.
Linesman's test sets also included a magneto, for use when ringing out to
either the exchange or the subscriber, from anywhere along the line. Their
use extended into the 1980s'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in October
Food
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Corn Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Caramel Month
National Cookbook Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
Pizza Month
Sausage Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Vegetarian Month
Health
AIDS Awareness Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
World Menopause Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Bat Appreciation Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Other
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Class Reunion Month
Country Music Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair
Fair Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
German-American Heritage Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
Learn To Bowl Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Chili Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Work and Family Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Self-Promotion Month
October is:
October origin (from Wikipedia): October is the tenth month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a
length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October
retained its name (from the Greek meaning 'eight') after January
and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been
created by the Romans.
"
October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern
hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal
equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
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