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Fast facts: Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips. Special varieties referred to as ãchipping potatoesä are grown for this purpose. In a traditional French restaurant kitchen, a ãgarde-mangerä is responsible for salads. Tortoni is a rich ice cream containing eggs, heavy cream, and chopped cherries, and is often topped with crushed almonds or macaroons. It originated about the 1940s. Legend has it the dish was named after an Italian cafŽ owner in Paris in the eighteenth century. The first bottles of Coca-Cola sold for a mere 5 cents per bottle in 1899. There are now more than 1,000 Coca-Cola bottling plants worldwide. While white mustard seeds are used to make yellow mustard, the color comes from turmeric. Spicy mustards are concocted from brown mustard seeds. The highly seasoned stew of meat or fish called ragout (rhymes with ãblueä) is prepared without vegetables. The name is derived from French and means ãto restore the appetite of.ä

 

On this date: In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, which asserted U.S. independence from Britain. In 1777, Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery. In 1956, Elvis Presley recorded ãHound Dogä and ãDonât Be Cruel.ä In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon. In 1959, Americaâs new 49-star flag honoring Alaskaâs statehood was unfurled. In 1983, the Supreme Court ruled retirement plans canât pay women less than men. In 1988, the U.S. navy shot down an Iranian civilian jetliner over the Persian Gulf killing 290. In 1988, Carlos Salinas de Gortari was elected president of Mexico.

 

Quotable... ãSomewhere along the way, we seem to have lost our Îcan doâ spirit.ä ÷ Former Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration Anson Chan, on the current state of Hong Kongâs economy.