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Here are today’s five food things to know about the gingerbread latte:

According to Swedish tradition, you can make a wish using gingerbread.


The first mention of the “latte” was made by William Dean Howells in his 1867 essay, “Italian Journeys.”


Queen Elizabeth I is credited for creating the first gingerbread men.


English women in the 1600’s believed that coffee “made men as unfruitful as the deserts.”


The “Gingerbread Capitol of the World” is Nuremburg, Germany.

Today’s Food Historyon this day in…
1946 Carmine Appice of the music group ‘Vanilla Fudge’ was born.1964 Canada adopted the maple leaf as the official symbol for its national flag