A short timeline of food history -

Lava Cake [Photo by John Cummings (Own work) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons]

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In honor of Entire world Meals Day on Oct. 16, in this article is a quick timeline of some lesser-acknowledged times in foodstuff heritage:

A.D. 79: Lone survivor of Mt. Vesuvius volcanic eruption relocates to find do the job in Italian bakery and the Lava Cake is born.

1195: Royal cook dinner satisfies with King Richard, recovering from extreme bout of pimples, to talk about new menu things for forthcoming commemorative banquet. Creates common pudding, Spotted Dick.

1453: Brutal Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler invents the shish kabob.

1805: Admiral Lord Nelson inadvertently produces a identify for a preferred breakfast food when asked to forecast the outcome of England’s naval marketing campaign with France in the Fight of Trafalgar. “French? Toast!” he reportedly states.

1851: Yorkshire sheepherder accidentally falls into a large grinder although functioning in an automatic food stuff-masher manufacturing unit. Favorite regional meat and potato dish renamed Shepherd’s Pie.

1894: Podiatrist brother of John Harvey Kellogg implies use for expanding a assortment of compact calluses scraped from patients’ toes and Corn Flakes produced.

1909: Absent-minded Idaho chef prepares the first twice-baked potato.

1912: Rotund U.S. President William Howard Taft stops by White Home kitchen area for an evening snack and inadvertently sits on meat and cheese pot pie still left on a chair. Observant staff members chef straight away resigns to variety to start with American pizza franchise.

1915: After going to Fort Yukon on the best day (100 °F) in state’s history, Anchorage dessert chef conceives Baked Alaska.

1919: Airline organization serves the to start with food to passengers for the duration of the London to Paris route creating what would grow to be universally identified as plain foodstuff.

1924: Italian-American restaurateur notices spouse mixing romaine lettuce with parmesan cheese, croutons, anchovies and Worcestershire sauce. Produces new leafy greens dish when he … sees her salad.