Today is the 100th anniversary of TV chef Julia Child’s birth, and it’s like food fans have been whipped into a frothy frenzy by balloon whisks. They’ve served up a music video (above), a Google Doodle, restaurant celebrations, and events at the Smithsonian, where Julia’s kitchen is now installed. Bon appétit, et joyeux anniversaire Julia!
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Remixed: Julia Child
August 15, 2012Oreo Cookie Centennial
March 6, 2012
An American icon reaches the century mark today: the Oreo sandwich cookie. A classic. Two crisp, round, embossed chocolate-colored wafers separated by a thin stratum of sweet white paste. Nothing but the finest sugar, enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1}, riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid, high oleic canola oil and/or palm oil and/or canola oil and/or soybean oil, cocoa (processed with alkali), high fructose corn syrup, cornstarch, leavening (baking soda and/or calcium phosphate), salt, soy lecithin (emulsifier), vanillin — an artifical flavor, chocolate. Yum.
Aye, Bobbie Burns and the Library of Congress
January 25, 2012
By now, no doubt, you’ve finished your haggis and neeps and drained a wee dram to toast the 253th Birthday of poet Robert Burns. The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division has an online celebration of Scottish links for your post-Burns Supper perusal:
“Robert Burns Day: Haggis, Anyone?” Kristi Finefield, Picture This
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Happy Birthday Joan!
January 7, 2012
France went wild yesterday. January 6th was Joan of Arc’s 600th birthday.
Or maybe not:
“France Celebrates Joan of Arc’s (Fake) Birthday,” Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News.
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Lady Liberty Goes High-Tech
October 28, 2011
The Statue of Liberty got some high-tech gifts for her 125th birthday. Webcams have been installed in her torch so the masses can huddle over their laptops and enjoy the view. Yearning to see free? Click here.
Happy Birthday Silvio Berlusconi
September 30, 2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi turned 75 yesterday. The AC Milan soccer team sent greetings to the embattled billionaire — he owns the franchise — but he got brickbats from most Italians. His biggest gift was a new sex scandal: former Miss Montenegro Katarina Knezevic says she had an affair with him.
Birthdays
August 13, 2011
The personal computer turns 30. IBM’s PC was introduced in August 1981.
Fidel Castro turns 85 today. There was a big party in Havana but el comandante wasn’t there.
It’s 50 years since the birth of the Berlin Wall (Antifaschistischer Schutzwall or “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”) and most of it missed the party, too.
