National Inventors' Month

I wouldn't be a very "tasteful"  hostess if I didn't mention August is National Inventors' Month, now would I? Yes, National Inventor's Month is a month long celebration of invention and creativity which was started way back in 1998. (I actually had a food related invention website then too:)  It is the brainchild of the United Inventors Association of the USA, the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventor's Digest Magazine.

How does one celebrate Inventors' Month? I suppose the best way to celebrate would be to remember and appreciate all the significant men, women and yes, children who planted their seeds and watched them grow, so we could enjoy the harvests; every day.

Personally, I'm not much of an inventor although, I do sometimes think of myself as a "Mad Scientist" in the kitchen. I'm forever creating meals (especially dinner meals) of odds and ends, this and that, and putting them all together. If the meal delivers oooo's and ahs, I tell my family to enjoy it for the moment as it may never come again. I suppose, the process begins at the grocery store. Take the shopping cart for example, who invented it and how? As I stroll up and down the aisles, yes, I'm a stroller in the grocery store, I'm always looking for something new to try. How else would I add to my concoctions. Sometimes, you can catch me in the salad dressing aisle absorbing all of the different combinations. I rarely use salad dressing as a marinade but, I adore all the various denominations of oil and vinegar. So, I think to myself, who invented Wishbone Salad Dressing or Thousand Island Dressing for that matter? You see what I mean, it gets so I can't go into a grocery store and not wonder. But that's not the half of it. As I daydream in the kitchen, while I'm waiting for the pot to boil, I wonder about such things as who invented the thermometer, the teabag, the blender...? In case you have this insatiable appetite for more more more, I have listed a few inventors and their inventions. Most of them have something to do with food but I did add a few in just because...

Tasteful Inventions III

Dr. Cyril P. Callister Vegemite Gustave Le Gray Waxed-Paper Negative Smith Brothers Medicated Cough Candy Benjamin Eisenstadt Sweet'N Low History of Milk Cartons Madeline M. Turner Turner's Fruit-Press

William Angrove Wine Cask Thomas Edison Waxed paper H. David Dalquist Bundt pan Momofuku Ando Instant Noodles Frank Epperson The Popsicle Pierre Fauchard False Teeth

Mike Debenham Presto pop-top can The History of the Corkscrew Herb Peterson Egg McMuffin Gail Borden Condensed Milk Guy L. Tinkham McCord Ice Tray George Stephen Weber Grill

Happy Inventors' Month! Don't forget to check the other lists and inventors in the sidebar. I think you will find Margaret (Mattie) Knight quite motivating. She was only 12 years old when she had her first invention patented.