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...
Today’s spotlight is on the Daiquiri. Love them or hate them, today is their day. The daiquiri is a cocktail made with rum, lime juice, and sugar. It is believed to have originated in in 1898 in the town of Daiquiri on the southeastern tip of Cuba near Santiago. Thus,...
Today’s foods spotlight is on Caviar. Caviar is made from the unfertilized fish eggs, or roe, of the female sturgeon. Sturgeon is a prehistoric species native to rivers and lakes in eastern Europe and central Asia. Only female sturgeon are used for caviar production...
