ON THIS DAY: 29 August 1892
ON THIS DAY: 29 August 1892 – At the Windsor Hotel in Ottawa, the Canadian inventor Thomas Ahearn made culinary history by serving the first full dinner ever cooked entirely using electricity. It was an astonishing 30-course meal for 100 distinguished guests. Just weeks earlier, Ahearn had been granted Patent No. 39,916 for an improved … Read more