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Random Fact – Porterhouse Steak

Martin Morrison, owner of Martin Morrison’s Porterhouse in New York City, is credited with coming up with the name porterhouse steak around 1814. The main customers at his establishment were sailors. One late evening with no beef left except for the short loin roasting piece, Morrison served a sailor a broiled slice of it. The sailor enjoyed the steak so much that he ordered nothing else and Martin Morrison’s Porterhouse began to specialize in the small loin steak. The word porterhouse originally referred to an establishment where porter (a very dark sweet ale) and sometimes steaks and other meals were sold.

Random Fact – Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls lies on the border between Ontario, Canada, and New York state, United States. It is divided into two sections, the American Falls (176 feet high with 150,000 gallons of water flowing over per second) and the Canadian Horseshoe Falls (167 feet high with 600,000 gallons of water flowing over per second). The first person to perform a high-wire stunt there was the French acrobat known as “Blondin,” in 1859. The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was 62-year-old school teacher Annie Edson Taylor in 1901. As of 2006, sixteen people have been known to go over Niagara Falls and eleven have survived.