Today’s Spotlight in on Bagels. National Bagelfest Day is celebrated on July 26th each year to recognize the tasty and light bread that is the bagel. The holiday was started in 1986 by Murray Lender, the owner of Lender’s Bagels. The first festival was held in...
Today’s spotlight is on the Hot Fudge Sundae. The prevailing theory is that the first hot fudge sundae was created in Los Angeles, California in 1906. Clarence Clifton Brown, the owner of C.C. Brown’s Ice Cream Shop in Los Angeles, is thought to have created the...
Today’s spotlight is on Tequila! A drink similar to tequila likely originated around 1000 B.C. among the Olmec people in what is now Southeastern Mexico. Tequila first came into existence between 250 and 300 A.D. when the Aztec Indians produced a fermented agave juice...
Today’s spotlight is on vanilla ice cream. According to the International Dairy Foods Association, chocolate was the first ice cream flavor invented, and vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor in the world. The first documented ice cream recipe was by...
Today’s spotlight is on Fortune Cookies. Fortune cookies can symbolize luck, wisdom, fate, and the unknown. The message inside the cookie is for you, and you picked that cookie out of all the others. Fortune cookies are a dessert served primarily in Chinese...
