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Monday, July 23, 2012

In Memoriam - The Tudor House in Santa Monica

This restaurant and store TheTudorHouse.com were founded in 1962 and closed on Sunday June 22, 2012 on its 50th anniversary. From what I heard on the Public Radio interview of the owner was that it was founded to serve the large British population that lived in Santa Monica at that time. It was successful and there are a lot of reviews on line.  However, Santa Monica, became more expensive and lots of the Brits left for other parts so that resulted in less patrons.  
  

 


 

 

The establishment served tea and coffee.

 
  


They served scones with clotted cream and jam. 

  • Vegetarian Quiche
  • Finger Sandwiches
  • Mini chocolate eclairs
  • Fresh strawberries with Devonshire Cream and raspberry jam
  • MORE!
 

 



Click on link below to see the Afternoon Tea Menu!!



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

National Barbecue Day 5 16 2012


 

Texas barbecue sauce - Lots of ingredients!!
Amazing ribs

Eastern North Carolina barbecue sauce - Vinegar - my fav.
All recipes Eastern NC Barbecue Sauce

Barbecue sauces - medley
Kansas, Texas, western vs eastern NC barbecue sauces

Barbecue sauce - PA
PA Dutch Birch Beer Barbecue Sauce

Cornell NY Chicken Barbecue
Cornell NY poultry barbecue sauce

Southern Plates North Alabama White Barbecue Sauce
Alabama White barbecue sauce

Florida Barbecue Sauce
Tim's Florida Barbecue Sauce

English Barbecue Sauce
All recipes UK barbecue sauce

Australian Barbecue Sauce
All recipes Aussie barbecue sauce

Spanish Barbecue Sauce (marmalade)
Spanish Barbecue Sauce


What wines?  Depends upon Barbecue Sauce.
See these links to live and learn:
From chowhound
From about.com

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Scream sells for $119,900,000

About food: What was going on in 1895 when this version (only publicly owned) when "The Scream" was painted by Edvard Munch?

  • Maxim's in Paris was founded as a bistro in 1893 by Maxime Gaillard so it celebrated its 2nd anniversary. It is still rockin' & rollin". Popular bistro is no located in other major international cities. For more information on its museum, boats that travel the Seine, shops and more!!  
  • Maxims-de-Paris   link
  • Louis Pasteur studied fermentation and food spoilage to find ways to keep foods from spoiling.
  • Henry  Perky in the US was a pioneer of the "cookless breakfast food" and it was he who first mass produced and nationally distributed ready-to-eat cereal. By 1898, shredded wheat was being sold all over North and South America and Europe. 
  • Staples for American slaves in 1895 were pork and cornmeal. 
  • Canadian Immigration 1890-1914 at its peak. Experimentation with wheat growing.
  • English sweets were invented  peanut brittle (1890) and liquorice allsorts (1899). 
  • People were using paper drinking straws and the screw top bottle invented by Marvin Stone in the 1880s. 
  • The first hamburgers were made & sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American Louis Lassen. He named  them hamburgers because the recipe came from sailors in Hambourg, Germany.