Category: Holiday
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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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Mother’s Day 2016
My first real memory of flowers coincides with Mother’s Day. As in many parts of the country, we wore blooms pinned to our lapels or dresses as we went to church on Mother’s Day: red roses if our mothers were still alive or white if they had died. For my family that meant gathering the…
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Scones
Lord knows we love a biscuit. Fluffy, warm, dripping in butter and slathered in jam or glistening with honey, the very thought jump starts the appetite and sets the mouth to water. And yet, as good as that is – and really, it’s nearly unbeatable goodness – there are times when the human spirit, driven…
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Cinco de Mayo
For the well-read individual, the historian, and, perhaps, for some champions of authenticity, Cinco de Mayo isn’t an exciting holiday. In the way of the commercial world, the 5th of May, like a few other notable holidays, may have more of its roots in sales routes than in anything else. But for us at Tomato…