December 8, 2022 - Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day | National Brownie Day

Welcome to December 8, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate bending time and dessert on the go. I always wish I had the nerve to celebrate Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day. This National Day began with a blog post in 2007, inviting participants to create a character from the future or past and to dress as that character for an entire day. How about you guys, would you choose to go to the future or past? On Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day have fun baffling those around with your own version of Cosplay. There are many versions of the origin story for brownies. Some say it was a forgetful chef who left the flour out of his batter by mistake. Another account tells of a home chef who improvised, when she discovered she had no baking powder for her cake. But an earlier version of the story starts with Bertha Palmer, an American socialite. Bertha wanted a special dessert that would fit neatly into a boxed lunch for her friends attending the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. Her husband owned the Palmer House hotel and one of the chefs there devised the perfect cake-like dessert that could be eaten by hand. This same recipe is served by the Parker House hotel to this day, so it must be tasty. On National Brownie Day celebrate with your own favorite version. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices