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The food category is enormous and the second most populated non-nation category in the calendar. It deals with nutrition, food (anything eaten), and non-alcoholic beverages. This category includes eating preferences like vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free.
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With Valentine's Day coming up, what better time to try your hand at candy making? National Candy-making Day is sponsored by Wilton Enterprises; the website hosts may ideas to tantalize your sweet tooth,...
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Dark Chocolate Day celebrates everything that is great about dark chocolate, including its health benefits as a super anti-oxidant. If you're a fan of dark chocolate, that means you are futuristic focus...
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Heavenly Hash is rice, pineapples, marshmallows and whipped cream all mixed together. Sometimes ice cream with nuts, marshmallows, fruits are used instead, which is then mixed up and plopped in a bowl. Th...
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National Tater Tot Day celebrates the bite-sized molded hash browns that are deep fried. An invention of the Or-Ida food company in the early 1950s, Tater Tots have been a school lunch favorite for decade...
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Carrot Cake is a favorite dessert with a long history. Originally known as carrot pudding, the first recipe was published in 1591 within 'A Booke of Cookrye'. It next appears in John Evelyn's 'Discourse o...
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National Medjool Date Day celebrates the fruit as a healthy snack and ingredient in salads, appetizers, entrees and smoothies. Dates are nature's candy and a healthy alternative to confections. 80% of all...
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National Soup Day, or National Homemade Soup Day is an unofficial holiday in the United States that celebrates the humble soup. Soup has been used for centuries to dispose of leftovers and feed multitud...
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Stuffed mushrooms are a favorite snack and appetizer or finger food at parties and events. Larger varieties like the Portobello can be stuffed as the main course of a meal. If you love mushrooms, this is...
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Chocolate Fondue is an American invention from 1966. It was created by Chalet Suisse in New York City. The restaurant ceased to exist after the late 1980s, but the delicious social dessert has made a com...
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It is the dream of every brand manager to inspire a cult following for their product. Apple has done it. Now it looks like the hazelnut and chocolate spread invented in the 1940s, know by the brand name N...
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Chopsticks have been around for some time and are believed to have originated during the Shang Dynasty (1766 - 1122 BC) and were originally used for cooking. The pointed end of the chopsticks will tell yo...
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Originally called Frogurt, frozen yogurt was invented by HP Hood in 1970. With the health food craze of the 1970s, it quickly gained popularity as an alternative to ice cream. In the 1980s, seizing upon t...
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Alfredo Di Lelio owned a small restaurant in Rome in 1914. After the birth of first son, his wife Ines found it difficult to eat. To help her, he created a dish of noodles, cheese and butter. Ines loved...
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National Molasses Bar Day celebrates the sweet, nutty cookie like cakes that are a favorite winter treat. Of course, not everything about molasses is sweet. Take The Great Boston Molasses Flood. During J...
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Bagels & Lox are an American food pairing of bagels with salt brine preserved salmon thinly sliced and often served with capers, cream cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and onions. The bagel was popularized by...
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Cream Cheese Brownie Day is one of the over 700 food related holidays this year. There is no sponsor, but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying this rich and decadent treat! It's simple. Take a fudge b...
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Capitalizing upon a successful United Nation's Year of Pulses in 2016, beginning in 2019 February 10, has been set aside as World Pulse Day. Pulses are edible seeds. World Pulses Day aims to heighten pub...
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If you've ever needed an excuse to eat chocolate and peppermint, today you have it. In 1940, Henry C. Kessler began selling peppermint cream covered in dark chocolate patty. He named it after the city,...
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World Day of the Sick is a feast day of the Roman Catholic Church instituted on May 13, 1992 by Pope John Paul II. Beginning on February 11, 1993, World Day of the Sick is celebrated every year on the d...
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Today is the anniversary of the publishing of the poem written in 1678 by Jean de la Fontaine - 'La Laitière et le Pot au Lait'. It is the origin of the saying “Don’t Cry over Spilled Milk”. Below is...