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[IceWizard]

10 Feb 2017


National Cream Cheese Brownie Day



Wow! Cream cheese brownie day? Have we all died and gone to heaven? I am not going to complain at having a justifiable reason to indulge… are you?

Let’s face it when you think of cheesecake you think of that creamy colored, tangy bite of feathery goodness with a graham cracker crust. How on earth could you pair that with the fudgy, gooey sweetness of a brownie without creating a culinary war on your taste buds? Quite easily in fact, and I thank that wonderful person who was the first to think of it – they are my hero!

History of Cream Cheese Brownie Day

If you want to understand Cream Cheese Brownie Day, then you must understand the pieces that go into making it – cream cheese and brownies!

Cream cheese, or forms of it, have been found in culinary records in Europe for hundreds of years. It is mentioned in England as early as 1583! In France, the earliest records show up about 1651. So clearly in Europe, they have a head start on enjoying that morning cream cheese fix because the first appearance of what we recognize today as cream cheese didn’t hit the market until 1873 when it was first mass produced.

Thank you, William A. Lawrence! He was the Chester, New York, dairyman who took this yummy cheese from the farms to our tabletops – and eventually into our brownies!

Speaking of brownies – the fudgy, decadent and sinful vice that most of us can claim as our own shows up in American culinary records in 1906. Although something called “brownies” had been around through most of the 1800s, what we think of brownies first appeared in a cookbook published by the Boston Cooking School. This recipe is not quite the gooey goodness we love, but it started the passion!



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National Umbrella Day

”I didn’t invent the rainy day. I just own the best umbrella.”
Jimmy Fallon

Everyone is familiar with the site of an umbrella, they’re present whether you live in the hottest of climates or the coldest. They’re there to keep the rain off on a blustery day, and there to protect you from sunburn on a warm and sunny one, there’s simply no day that isn’t a perfect Umbrella Day! So of course there’s a holiday to honor this ever useful, ever fashionable and essential piece of travel gear.

History of Umbrella Day

Umbrella Day celebrates this useful device that has been with us for quite a long time, and has served every purpose from practical to fanciful since its creation. Just how long has the umbrella been with us? Long enough that it’s permeated every culture across the globe, and originated from more than one. The oldest recorded umbrella appeared in 21 AD, in Ancient China. Though to be fair, this really was just the first recorded collapsible umbrella, Qin Shihuang’s tomb revealed a terracotta army carriage that had a permanently open umbrella attached to it dating from 210 BC. They were also found in Nineveh, Persepolis, Ancient Egypt, and Greece, just to name a few. Needless to say the umbrella has a long and noble history.

The popularity of the umbrella extended beyond its usefulness for protecting us from sun and rain, special efforts were made to turn these simple devices into exquisite works of art, some of them even being made of lace or lavishly decorated paper, and were carried by the most influential and beautiful people in the world. Today has revealed even more styles that are available in the world, including an innovation on the already innovative collapsible umbrella. Now they have telescoping ones that don’t just collapse the shade, but then collapse the handle so it can fit in your purse or car door!

Isn’t that amazing?

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February 10 Birthdays



Cliff Burton - (1962 - 1986) (24)



Emma Roberts - 26



Elizabeth Banks - 43





February 10th

1999: Iron Maiden announced that singer Bruce Dickinson & guitarist Adrian Smith would be rejoining the band for a reunion tour & a new album. Both Dickinson & Smith are still in Iron Maiden to this day.

1998: Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose was arrested for allegedly threatening to punch out a security guard who was searching his luggage at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Rose was charged with disorderly conduct.

1995: Seventeen years after its initial release, Heaven Tonight by Cheap Trick was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.

1990: Aerosmith peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Janie’s Got a Gun” which was their fifth top ten single in the U.S.

1990: Eric Clapton performed the final night of his record setting 18 nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

1979: Dire Straits released their debut single “Sultans of Swing” in the U.S., which went on to reach number four on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

1978: Van Halen released their self-titled debut album. It peaked at number nineteen on the Billboard 200 album chart & went on to sell ten million copies in the U.S. alone.

1975: Dave Alexander, bassist for The Stooges died of pulmonary edema at a hospital in Ann Arbor, MI. He was 27 years old.

1970: ZZ Top performed their first concert in Beaumont, TX.
(my hometown and I was there )



Birthdays:

Cliff Burton - Bassist for Metallica born in 1962