Fun Food Facts to Ponder

           Would you like a recipe for marinated wild bear?  One was in the first issue of Gourmet, America’s First food magazine.  The year was 1941.  Gourmet closed down in 2009.

           Do you know when the concept of cooking on TV first made an appearance?  It was August 1946.  Borden sponsored a fifteen-minute show called Elsie Presents James Beard in “I Love to Eat.”    

           It wasn’t until 1962 that Julia Child demonstrated omelette making on public television.  Her show, The French Chef, was the first widely televised cooking show. 

          The Food Network debuted in 1993 and the celebrity chef was born. 

          You can blame Wilbur O. Atwater for starting our obsession with counting calories.  He measured the food intake and energy out put of more than 10,000 people using a device called the Calorimeter.  It was in 1892.  

           A New Your housewife started a weight-loss club in 1963.  Her name was Jean Nidetch and the club she founded was Weight Watchers.  I wonder how many pounds all of its members have shed collectively in the past 47 years.  

Cooking is easier than you think and you and your family are worth the time and effort it takes. 

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