Food of Millennium
Lin Nah
With so many ppl who think the millennium starts in a few days time rather
than at the end of next year, I decided to join the fun of it.
Since there's a lot of talk about the Person of the year/century/Millennium
or Music/composer/invention etc, has there been any discussion about the
food related stuff?
What is the food of the millennium or century?
What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the year/century/millennium?
What about drink? Will it be water?
For example the invention of fridges has changed the way food is prepared
or changed lifestyles in that you don't need to shop everyday for that day's
food. What about the microwave? Did that bring the wave of fastfoods?
I think Chocolate should be listed as the food of the millennium 8)
Look forward to the discussion 8)
Lin
Jack Schidt
Lin Nah <headmi...@sex.school.nz> wrote in message
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I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
How does it know?
Jack
Alan Boles
Or the printing press because it made cookbooks more readily available.
"Jack Schidt" <jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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notbob
<snip>
> I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
> How does it know?
..LMAO
good one, Jack
Rick and Lisa Marinelli
<jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
Bull... I put hot soup and ice cubes in one. The ice melted and the
soup got cold. :)
Rick Marinelli
rickandlisa"deletethistoemail"@erols.com
Cooking is like love: It should be entered into with abandon
or not at all.
Stan Horwitz
> What is the food of the millennium or century?
Pizza. 'Nuff said!
> What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the year/century/millennium?
The microwave oven for this century. The gas/electric stove for the millenium.
> What about drink? Will it be water?
Probably water with wine a close second.
Dimitri
Jack Schidt <jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
> How does it know?
>
> Jack
>
Sorry Jack that's "How do it know?"
;-)
Dimitri
PENMART10
<haha...@hotmail.com> writes:
>I vote for the frying pan.
You're a bit late. Metal pans have been around a lot longer, way before this
millennium.
Bronze Age
technological period when metals were first used to make tools and weapons. The
earliest stage, when pure copper and bronze were used interchangeably, has been
called the Copper Age. CASTING was well established in the Middle East by 3500
B.C.; in the New World the first bronze was cast A.D. c.1100. Development of a
metallurgical industry coincided with urbanization, growth of an artisan class,
and trade for raw materials, laying the foundation for the IRON AGE.
Iron Age
technological period from the first general use of iron to modern times. In
Asia, Egypt, and Europe it followed the BRONZE AGE; Europeans brought it to the
Americas. Hammered iron was known in Egypt before 1350 B.C.,
>Or the printing press because it made cookbooks more readily available.
The printing press, even though invented in the mid 1400s (Johannes Gutenberg:
1398-1468), hardly qualifies as uniquely food-related.
I vote for:
George Washington Carver ...
b. 1861?, near Diamond Grove, Mo., U.S.
d. Jan. 5, 1943, Tuskegee, Ala.
American agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter whose development
of new products derived from peanuts (groundnuts), sweet potatoes, and soybeans
helped revolutionize the agricultural economy of the South. For most of his
career he taught and conducted research at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Tuskegee, Ala.
Carver was the son of a slave woman owned by Moses Carver. During the Civil
War, slave owners found it difficult to hold slaves in the border state of
Missouri, and Moses Carver therefore sent his slaves, including the young child
and his mother, to Arkansas. After the war, Moses Carver learned that all his
former slaves had disappeared except for a child named George. Frail and sick,
the motherless child was returned to his former master's home and nursed back
to health. The boy had a delicate sense of colour and form and learned to draw;
later in life he devoted considerable time to painting flowers, plants, and
landscapes. Though the Carvers told him he was no longer a slave, he remained
on their plantation until he was about 10 or 12 years old, when he left to
acquire an education. He spent some time wandering about, working with his
hands and developing his keen interest in plants and animals.
By both books and experience, George acquired a fragmentary education while
doing whatever work came to hand in order to subsist. He supported himself by
varied occupations that included general household worker, hotel cook,
laundryman, farm labourer, and homesteader. In his late 20s he managed to
obtain a high school education in Minneapolis, Kan., while working as a
farmhand. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was
black, Carver matriculated at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, where he
studied piano and art, subsequently transferring to Iowa State Agricultural
College (Ames, Iowa), where he received a bachelor's degree in agricultural
science in 1894 and a master of science degree in 1896.
Carver left Iowa for Alabama in the fall of 1896 to direct the newly organized
department of agriculture at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, a
school headed by the noted black American educator Booker T. Washington. At
Tuskegee, Washington was trying to improve the lot of black Americans through
education and the acquisition of useful skills rather than through political
agitation; he stressed conciliation, compromise, and economic development as
the paths for black advancement in American society. Despite many offers
elsewhere, Carver would remain at Tuskegee for the rest of his life.
After becoming the institute's director of agricultural research in 1896,
Carver devoted his time to research projects aimed at helping Southern
agriculture, demonstrating ways in which farmers could improve their economic
situation. He conducted experiments in soil management and crop production and
directed an experimental farm. At this time agriculture in the Deep South was
in serious trouble because the unremitting single-crop cultivation of cotton
had left the soil of many fields exhausted and worthless, and erosion had then
taken its toll on areas that could no longer sustain any plant cover. As a
remedy, Carver urged Southern farmers to plant peanuts and soybeans, which,
since they belong to the legume family, could restore nitrogen to the soil
while also providing the protein so badly needed in the diet of many
Southerners. Carver found that Alabama's soils were particularly well-suited to
growing peanuts and sweet potatoes, but when the state's farmers began
cultivating these crops instead of cotton, they found little demand for them on
the market. In response to this problem, Carver set about enlarging the
commercial possibilities of the peanut and sweet potato through a long and
ingenious program of laboratory research. He ultimately developed 300
derivative products from peanuts--among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink,
dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils, and cosmetics--and
118 from sweet potatoes, including flour, vinegar, molasses, rubber, ink, a
synthetic rubber, and postage stamp glue.
In 1914, at a time when the boll weevil had almost ruined cotton growers,
Carver revealed his experiments to the public, and increasing numbers of the
South's farmers began to turn to peanuts, sweet potatoes, and their derivatives
for income. Much exhausted land was renewed, and the South became a major new
supplier of agricultural products. When Carver arrived at Tuskegee in 1896, the
peanut had not even been recognized as a crop, but within the next half century
it became one of the six leading crops throughout the United States and, in the
South, the second cash crop (after cotton) by 1940. In 1942 the U.S. government
allotted 5,000,000 acres of peanuts to farmers. Carver's efforts had finally
helped liberate the South from its excessive dependence on cotton.
Among Carver's many honours were his election to Britain's Society for the
Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (London) in 1916 and his
receipt of the Spingarn Medal in 1923. Late in his career he declined an
invitation to work for Thomas A. Edison at a salary of more than $100,000 a
year. Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt visited him, and his
friends included Henry Ford and Mohandas K. Gandhi. Foreign governments
requested his counsel on agricultural matters: Joseph Stalin, for example, in
1931 invited him to superintend cotton plantations in southern Russia and to
make a tour of the Soviet Union, but Carver refused.
In 1940 Carver donated his life savings to the establishment of the Carver
Research Foundation at Tuskegee for continuing research in agriculture. During
World War II he worked to replace the textile dyes formerly imported from
Europe, and in all he produced dyes of 500 different shades.
Many scientists thought of Carver more as a concoctionist than as a contributor
to scientific knowledge. Many of his fellow blacks were critical of what they
regarded as his subservience. Certainly, this small, mild, soft-spoken,
innately modest man, eccentric in dress and mannerism, seemed unbelievably
heedless of the conventional pleasures and rewards of this life. But these
qualities endeared Carver to many whites, who were almost invariably charmed by
his humble demeanour and his quiet work in self-imposed segregation at
Tuskegee. As a result of his accommodation to the mores of the South, whites
came to regard him with a sort of patronizing adulation.
Carver thus increasingly came to stand for much of white America as a kind of
saintly and comfortable symbol of the intellectual achievements of black
Americans. Carver was evidently uninterested in the role his image played in
the racial politics of the time. His great desire in later life was simply to
serve humanity; and his work, which began for the sake of the poorest of the
black sharecroppers, paved the way for a better life for the entire South. His
efforts brought about a significant advance in agricultural training in an era
when agriculture was the largest single occupation of Americans, and he
extended Tuskegee's influence throughout the South by encouraging improved farm
methods, crop diversification, and soil conservation.
------ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA
Sheldon
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On a recent Night Court rerun, Judge Harry Stone had a wonderful line:
"I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out."
Curly Sue
>I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>How does it know?
The same way aspirin knows when to help your head in some cases and
your back in others. Microchips.
Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
sue at interport net
Young
>
> "Jack Schidt" <jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
> >How does it know?
>
> The same way aspirin knows when to help your head in some cases and
> your back in others. Microchips.
My 'hygiene' teacher (aka Ms Carr the gym teacher) proclaimed that the
aspirin was in the blood stream, looking for the part that hurt.
So much for my medical training.
nancy
Alan Zelt
>
> This is going to be complete sacrilege on this newsgroup and don't get me
> wrong, I LOVE to cook, but I am waiting for the day when my family is
> whining about whats for supper and I've had a horrible day and I've not
> even thought about dinner let alone gone to the store, and all I have to
> say is here, take your power pill I can't deal with cooking today. It's
> better than a bologna sandwich. LOL
> Cindy
Maybe in the next Millennium you will work up the courage to answer them
by saying: Why not look in the fridge and fix supper yourself today. Mom
has had a horrible day and I am too tired to cook. It might shock them.
Surely they will think you are joking up to the point that they realize
that you are not going to fix dinner tonite.
alan
Eliminate FINNFAN on reply.
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and
avoid the
people, you might better stay home."
--James Michener
cindy
wrong, I LOVE to cook, but I am waiting for the day when my family is
whining about whats for supper and I've had a horrible day and I've not
even thought about dinner let alone gone to the store, and all I have to
say is here, take your power pill I can't deal with cooking today. It's
better than a bologna sandwich. LOL
Cindy
Lin Nah <headmi...@sex.school.nz> wrote in article
<84cs4b$ato$1...@hama.darkmere.gen.nz>...
>
> With so many ppl who think the millennium starts in a few days time
rather
> than at the end of next year, I decided to join the fun of it.
>
> Since there's a lot of talk about the Person of the
year/century/Millennium
> or Music/composer/invention etc, has there been any discussion about the
> food related stuff?
>
> What is the food of the millennium or century?
> What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the
year/century/millennium?
> What about drink? Will it be water?
>
Christine Ashby
Stan Horwitz wrote in message <84dgst$nk7$1...@cronkite.temple.edu>...
>Probably water with wine a close second.
I beg your pardon? They drank wine all through the last millenium, and the
one before that...
Christine
Jack Schidt
Young <qwe...@mail.monmouth.com> wrote in message
news:386A96...@mail.monmouth.com...
Same here. Until recently, I thought the tournequet was a cure all.
Jack
tommary
Gadget: Plastic (we didn't say it had to be mechanical!!)
Drink: Carbonated soda pop
Mary
Fudge
For beverage of the century, volume alone: Beer (U.S.A. mass produced
generic)
The most significant foodstuff of the millennium: Potato
The most significant drink of the millennium: Wine
Farmer John
Kathy Bloor
<jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
>How does it know?
>
>Jack
>
It has a built in microMc'chip from McDonald's. You must just hope
it's Y2K compliant, or hot food will get cold, and vice versa.
Kathy
Kathy Bloor
>"Jack Schidt" <jack....@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>I'd vote for the thermos. It keeps hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
>
>>How does it know?
>
>The same way aspirin knows when to help your head in some cases and
>your back in others. Microchips.
>
>Sue(tm)
Reminds me of the time I went to the doctor earlier this year when I
had an infection in my neck he wanted to check some days after
prescribing antibiotics. While there, feeling generally miserable, I
said I now also had a sore throat.
"The antibiotics will find it" he said, without even looking at my
throat!
Kathy
Kathy Bloor
wrote:
>What is the food of the millennium or century?
>What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the year/century/millennium?
>What about drink? Will it be water?
>
Food: sliced bread
Gadget: can opener
Drink: bottled water (or is that the great con of the century?)
Kathy
wheel man
for the home based deep fry. For gadget I go with the potato peeler for
preparing home made fries.
Zita Maria Evensen
Now that I stocked up on bottled water, ramen, extended life chips and nuts,
canned ( ugh!) meat and fish, candy bars -- when will I ever eat fresh
food again ;-)
/z.
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... and so while thoughts went to and fro,
we kissed and solved the matter so.
-- anonymous
Monika Adamczyk
>
> Kathy Bloor (kat...@ihug.co.nz) writes:
> > On 29 Dec 1999 11:43:07 GMT, Lin Nah <headmi...@sex.school.nz>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>What is the food of the millennium or century?
> >>What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the year/century/millennium?
> >>What about drink? Will it be water?
> >>
> > Food: sliced bread
> > Gadget: can opener
> > Drink: bottled water (or is that the great con of the century?)
> >
> > Kathy
>
> Now that I stocked up on bottled water, ramen, extended life chips and nuts,
> canned ( ugh!) meat and fish, candy bars -- when will I ever eat fresh
> food again ;-)
>
> /z.
If money is not a problem but you don't want to throw out the food,
donate it to a local food pantry.
Monika
Zita Maria Evensen
I was kidding, Monika, but your idea is indeed very good.
/z.
Monika Adamczyk (mon...@mediaone.net) writes:
> Zita Maria Evensen wrote:
>>
>>
>> Now that I stocked up on bottled water, ramen, extended life chips and nuts,
>> canned ( ugh!) meat and fish, candy bars -- when will I ever eat fresh
>> food again ;-)
>>
>> /z.
>
> If money is not a problem but you don't want to throw out the food,
> donate it to a local food pantry.
>
> Monika
Alan Zelt
>
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> >Since there's a lot of talk about the Person of the year/century/Millennium
> >or Music/composer/invention etc, has there been any discussion about the
> >food related stuff?
> >
> >What is the cooking gadget that wins the one for the year/century/millennium?
> >What about drink? Will it be water?
>
> answer to this very food question, after being cautioned by Katie that
> he could NOT say "the Big Mac," he said "fast food" was the most
> important development in food.
>
> I think refrigeration is the most important food development.
>
> N.
Might very well be so. OTOH, I do believe that some fast food would not
benefit from refrigeration, or lacktherof.
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