January 7th - Today is the 7th day of the year, with only 358 days remaining in 2006.

Fanny Farmer Cookbook Day
In 1896, Fannie Merritt Farmer published her first cookbook, "Boston Cooking School Cook Book", now known as the "Fannie Farmer Cookbook".


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FIRST QUARTER - Jan 6   6:56 p.m.
FULL MOON - Jan 14   9:47 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.


Top Ten Rejected Cookbook Titles:
10. Getting Even: Hillary's High-Fat Cookbook
9. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for Dummies
8. Bob Vila's Sawdust Cuisine
7. Granny Clampett's "Yer Throwin' Away the Best Parts!" Entrees
6. Mud, Sticks, and Leaves: Cooking with a Four Year Old
5. Cooking with Condiments - An Apartment Dweller's Guide to Making Something Out of Nothing
4. 101 Ways to Wok Your Dog
3. Everything's Yogurt ... Eventually!
2. Lions and Tigers and Beets, Oh My!
1. Newman's Stone: Cooking for Older Gall Bladders


ACTING -
1903 Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman series) [D: 08/08/88]
1950 Erin Gray, Honolulu HI, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)
1956 David Caruso, Forest Hills NY, actor (Horatio Caine-CSI: Miami)
1957 (Katherine) Katie Couric, Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1964 Nicolas Cage (Nicholas Kim Coppola), actor (Nicholas Kim Coppola, National Treasure)
1971 David Yost, Council Bluff IA, actor (Billy/Blue Ranger-Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers)
1990 Liam Padraic Aiken, NYC, actor (Klaus Baudelaire-A Series of Unfortunate Events)

ARTISTIC -
1873 Adolph Zukor, Ricse Hungary, movie producer/director/executive (Founder-Paramount) [D: 06/10/76]
1912 Charles Addams, Westfield NJ, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family) [D: 09/28/88]
1928 William Peter Blatty, NYC, author (The Exorcist)

HISTORIC -
1800 Millard Fillmore, Summerhill NY, (Whig) 13th President (1850-53) [D: 03/08/1874]
1844 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous [St Bernadette of Lourdes], saint/visionary [D: 04/16/1879]

MUSIC -
1942 Paul Revere, Harvard NE, keyboardist (Paul Revere & Raiders-Kicks, Indian Reservation)
1948 Kenny Loggins, Everett WA, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose)

SCIENCE -
1941 Frederick Drew Gregory, Washington DC, Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51-B, 33, 44)

SPORTS -
1969 Erric Pegram, Dallas TX, NFL running back (Pit Steelers, New York Giants, San Diego Chargers) Super Bowl XL
1970 Darryl Williams, Miami FL, NFL safety (Seahawks, Bengals)


1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them Io, Europa and Ganymede and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
1782 The first American commercial bank opens (Bank of North America).
1904 Marconi Co establishes the distress signal "CQD" only to be replaced two years later by "SOS."
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play first game (Hinckley IL).
1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916).
1949 First photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker.
1953 President Harry Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1961 First NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16.
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock".
1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage.
1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far.
1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1999 The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Easrer Day - Sudan
Ethiopian Christmas (Genna) - Ethiopia
Orthodox Christmas - Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Lebanon, Serbia & Montenegro, Ukraine
Russian Orthodox Christmas - Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Serbian Orthodox Christmas - Yugoslavia
St. John's Day - Bulgaria
Tumbes Anniversary - Peru
Victory Day Over the Genocidal Regime - Cambodia


RECIPE COLLECTION
I'll go get the scissors and cut it out quick.
This recipe looks plain delicious,
And what I adore is new recipes for
All kinds of unusual dishes.

I've got 'em for shish-kebob, blintzes and borsch,
For goulash and Siamese noodles,
For guava soufflé and papaya parfait,
And oodles for puddings and strudels.

I've got 'em in folders, I've got 'em in drawers
I read 'em and just can't resist 'em.
I cut 'em from ads and from box tops in scads,
And someday I'll sort 'em and list 'em.

But not at the moment.  I'd best stash away
This recipe -- gee, it's a dillly!
And rustle some chow. H'm-m, let me see, now,
Shall I open some soup or some chili?
( via TheChef @ wwrecipes.com )


"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor" - Phyllis Diller


COOKING SCHOOL: Simmer camp. (WordFoolery)

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