Today in food history:
- Apple Tree Day
- National Shortbread Day
- National Bean Day
- 1901 Philip Danforth Armour, died. American industrialist who pioneered the use of refrigeration and meat canning. Armour & Co. became the largest meatpacker in the world and this helped Chicago become the meatpacking capital of the world. (The fact that Chicago is the 'Windy City' may have helped also).
- 1929 Sheffeld Farms of New York began using wax paper cartons instead of glass bottles for milk delivery.
- 1988 The famous Paris restaurant 'La Coupole' was sold and eventually replaced by an office building. It was famous for its Welsh rarebit, and had been frequented by James Joyce, Henry Miller and many other notable Americans.
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