September 22

It's Bilbo's Birthday !!! I'd love a Middle Earth celebration...You can find Middle Earth recipes through sites listed at my http://ofwizardshobbitsentsandelves.blogspot.com :

Hobbitian, Elven, and Other Ancient Tolkien-ian Recipes!

• http://home.comcast.net/~mithrandircq/LOTR-Hobbit-recipes2.htm
• http://www.daisyshobbithole.com/cooking.html
• http://hobbitmeals.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/hobbit-recipes/
• http://historicalfoods.com/2058/food-in-tolkiens-the-hobbit-recipes/
• http://midearthfoodie.wordpress.com/
• http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/other/recipes.html

from a fansite, from the great Fellowship of the Ring movie:

Today's so-called exotic dish suggestion from the 365 Foreign Dishes, published in 1908, is what they call Bean Polenta from Italy. It's pureed beans (no corn polenta in this dish), mixed with carmelized onions and served hot with a sauce of vinegar, mustard, lemon juice, and plenty of molasses. 

The first issue of National Geographic was published today! in 1888.