Want to rev up the flavor of your chili? In addition to ground beef, try adding some diced pepperoni, too. Your family will love the results
Coffee gained popularity after the Boston Tea Party in 1773, when it was upatriotic to drink English tea.
Chrisitan K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa patented the "Eskimo Pie" on January 24, 1922.
For a delightful difference, try sweetening your tea with maple syrup instead of honey or sugar.
An average American eats about 10 pounds of dry cereal each year.
Use leftover meat as the base for a main course salad the next day. Add salad greens or chopped fresh vegetable, and you'll have a meal in minutes.
Cafeterias are believed to have started during the 1849 Gold Rush in San Francisco, where saloon-keepers wooed prospectors with free lunches.
Enhance the flavor of quick breads by storing them overnight before slicing and serving.
The cucumber is one of the oldest cultivated vegetable. It's been growing at least since 7750 B.C.
Before discarding unused orange peels, grate the rind - avoiding the white zest - and freeze in small amounts for future baking and cooking.
In 1903, Milton Hershey built the world's largest chocolate factory in Hershey, Pennsylvannia.
Bake more potatoes than you need and dice the leftovers (with skins on) for a speedy side dish of hash browns the next day.
The blackbery is often called a "bramble" because it is grown on thorny bushes or brambles.
If you crack the shells of hard-cooked eggs slightly and let them stand in cold water for 5 minutes, they'll be much easier to peel.
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company was organized in 1870 and grew into the largest single chain of grocery stores - A & P.
Not a fan of leftovers? Try freezing small amounts of leftover chicken until you have enough for a potpie or casserole. Your family will be glad you did!
Hush puppies are so named because as cooks fried fish coated in cornmeal batter, they threw fried nuggets of batter to the dogs to quiet them.
If all the strawberries produced in California were laid end to end, they would stretch from the earth to the moon more than one and a half times.
Vary the flavor of French toast by using cinnamon raisin bread instead of plain white bread. Kids of all ages will love it!
Ready-to-eat breakfast foods were principally introduced by Charles William Post. He produced Grape Nuts in 1897, Post Toasties in 1915 and Post's Bran in 1922.
Speed up salad making by washing, cutting up and drying all ingredients as soon as you buy them. Then store in a plastic bag. At mealtime, just pull out the bag and make the salad.
Upset by the number of dishes her kitchen help broke, Illinois housewife Josephine Cochrane invented the mechanical dishwasher in 1879.
Combine three parts salt with one part black pepper in a single shaker. Keep the shaker on the stove to season foods in a snap.
Each summer, an estimated 40 billion servings of iced tea are poured across the United States.
Discard sauces used for marinating uncooked meat. If you want to serve some sauce with dinner, set aside the desired amount before using the remainder to marinate the meat.
Before coating nonstick pans and cooking utensils, "Teflon" was the heat protection of spacecraft and missiles.
After purchasing or picking fresh ripe berries, cover them loosely in a container and refrigerate promptly. Wash just before serving.
Americans eat 16 billion hot dogs each year - that's about 66 hot dogs per person!
Gently spread the meringue all the way to the edge of the pie crust to seal and prevent shrinkage.
Salisbury steak is named by Dr. J. H. Salisbury, a 19th century English physician, who recommended eating chopped beef three times a day to ward off many ailments.
Blueberries have grown wild for thousands of years but weren't cultivated until after 1900.
Instead of bread for sandwiches, try hard rolls, biscuits, buns, pita bread, tortillas, bagels or English muffins.
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