When I think of famous pairs, I think:

Laverne and Shirley, Sonny and Cher, bread and butter, night and day, and peanut butter and chocolate.

Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to announce that today is simultaneously National Peanut Day and International Chocolate Day! The beginning of the Reese’s peanut butter cup (the only respectable candy ‘bar’) owes its birth to a start on September 13th…of some year. I’m overjoyed to have a day off so I can go grab a Reese’s!

Other tidbits and interesting history on this September 13th to note (courtesy of foodreference.com):

1592 Michel de Montaigne died. French essayist. There are a few of his quotes about food and dining listed on the Food Reference website. (“A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.”)

1857 Milton Snaveley Hershey of chocolate fame was born.

1876 American author, Sherwood Anderson was born. In 1941 Anderson supposedly swallowed a toothpick or a swizzle stick while at a cocktail party in the Panama Canal Zone, and died of peritonitis.

1909 ‘The Chocolate Soldier,’ an operetta by Oscar Straus and Stanislaus Strange, opened in New York.

1916 Roald Dahl was born. British author, one of his most popular books was ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,’ the film version was titled ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.’ Some of his other books are ‘A Piece of Cake,’ ‘Pig,’ ‘Royal Jelly,’ ‘Smell’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter.’ The highest temperature ever recorded in the shade, 136.4 degrees F was recorded in a village 25 miles south of Tripoli, Libya.

1922

1955 Little Richard recorded ‘Tutti Frutti’

1977 Fiona Apple, singer, songwriter was born.

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A few photos from the previous few weeks:

 Ziplining with Janet and Tabitha

 A humpback fluke from about 50 yards

 Mendenhall Glacier and falls

 An eerie river

 Fish Fest at my house (friends Dylan and Amber)

 Beer-battered halibut, lemon cod and crab cakes!