Category: Food Holidays
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Royal Icing
This is a great icing for icing sugar cookies and gingerbread cut out cookies 1/3 cup Pasteurized Egg Whites 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 3-4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted Beat the egg whites in the bowl of your stand mixer with the whisk attachment or with your hand-held mixer until the mixture looks frothy. Add the…
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Day
As a younger person, I never grasped the concept of comfort food. For me, food fell into only two categories – things I liked and things I didn’t. And the categorization was complicated – one might assume that peanut butter was in one category or another, but it wasn’t. A piece of bread, spread thick…
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National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day
George Washington Carver If you were to scroll back through past posts of this blog, you’d find that we have a lot of fun with National food days. We celebrate them, we make fun of them, and sometimes we make fun of ourselves for celebrating them. And we’re still not sure of who even creates…
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National Dessert Day
Words, as anyone who has said bumfuzzle aloud can tell you, are funny. How they came to be and where they came from can be amusing when not just strange. Consider dessert – as, of course, we hope you often do- that word comes from a French word, dessevir, meaning to remove what has been…
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Pumpkin Spice Day
Perhaps it’s best if you’re sitting. The shock may be too much for you – but fear not, there is a warm and fuzzy place that we can help you find, one that will make it all better, so stay with us… Perhaps it will come as no surprise to you that there is an…
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National Bacon Lover’s Day
August 20th is a subtle food holiday. Whereas most of the time we’re celebrating a particular thing we love to eat, this day honors those who do the eating. And while we’re certainly all about lifting people up, it just doesn’t seem right to give bacon lovers, of all people, their own holiday. After all,…
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National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
The oddity of food holidays, who decides what food gets a special designation and the odd times that those days appear in the calendar of celebrated comestibles is a common and whimsical lament in our blog. But this particular day, Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, is no mystery to us – among these fanciful food fetes,…
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National Sugar Cookie Day
If the sugar cookie could talk, I suspect it would express some bashful surprise at the fact that we honor, even celebrate, it. The often pale and unadorned sweet might even blush to know that we toast its very existence today on National Sugar Cookie Day. The Sugar Cookie, at least as we most often…
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Trifecta of Food Holidays
3 is a magical number. In Roman and Chinese systems, it’s one of the few numbers that’s written with as many strokes as the number represents. It’s a significant number to Christians, Hindus, Pagans, and Pythagoras, too. In less consecrated ways, those who fancy a flutter on the gee-gees on Derby Day or anytime Keeneland…
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National Grilled Cheese Day
In my personal pantheon of comfort foods, a grilled cheese ranks in the top tier of edible idols. And, despite the legion of silly food holidays, this sammie not only warrants a national day of observance, it really ought to have its own month. It’s a particularly cozy comestible because it begins so simply with…