Food Glorious Food
Chips and guacamole. You have to love the food dip this weekend. It is a great way to start out any food fest on Super Bowl Sunday. According to the California Avocado Commission, the organization is based just a guacamole’s throw from my home in Irvine, California. The commission was created in 1978 to develop markets for and increase consumption of California avocados on behalf of the state’s 6,000 avocado growers. The California Avocado Commission serves as the official information source for California avocados and the California avocado industry. All that being said, I searched their site to se how many avocados are consumed annually during the biggest TV watching day of the year.
I did find on the California Farm Bureau Federation’s website a story that attributing that the commission estimates more than 46 million pounds of avocados will be consumed tomorrow. Here are a few trivia facts you can challenge friends between beers.
- Avocados are a fruit, not a vegetable, belonging to the genus Persea in the Lauraceae family.
- Avocados are sodium- and cholesterol-free and have only five grams of fat per serving, most of it the monounsaturated kind.
- Avocados were once a luxury food reserved for the tables of royalty.
- Brazilians add avocados to ice cream
- Filipinos puree avocados with sugar and milk for a dessert drink.
- California produces about 90% of the nation’s avocado crop.
- A single California avocado tree can produce about 500 avocados
- About 43% of all U.S. households buy avocados.
- A one acre avocado orchard removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
The food Network, certainly a better source for recipes than I, has a section of its website dedicated to dips, appetizers and general Super Bowl Recipes.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/holidays-and-parties/index.html
Bon A Petit!
