Category: Food Holidays

TIP OF THE DAY: Make Fresh Lemonade Or Limeade

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It’s easy add a hit of extra flavor to lemon-ade, from lavender to jalapeño. Photo courtesy The Great Pepper Cookbook by Melissa’s Produce.   August 20th is National Lemonade Day. If the only lemonade you drink comes from a bottle, you’ve never experienced real lemonade. Bottled drinks are not only pasteurized, but typically use reconstituted…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sipping Rum

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Rum is a new world spirit, initially distilled by slaves on Caribbean sugar cane plantations. The distilled rum can be drunk in its clear state (white or blanco rum), or aged in oak barrels for various lengths of time, the process of which creates the different types of rum. Why is one blanco (or añejo,…
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FOOD HOLIDAY RECIPE: Creamsicle Cheesecake

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August 14th is National Creamsicle Day. How about a “Creamsicle” Cheese Cake? First, a bit of food history, and why we put the word Creamsicle within quotation marks: The Popsicle® was invented by a 29-year-old husband and father working in the real estate industry during the Great Depression. Frank Epperson made what he called Epsicles…
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Make Beef Carpaccio For National Filet Mignon Day

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August 13th is National Filet Mignon Day. Filet mignon, the most tender and expensive cut of beef, comes from the small end of the tenderloin, and accounts for less than 1% of the entire carcass of the steer. The term “filet mignon” is a French derivative, the literal meaning is small (mignon) boneless meat (filet).…
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Fresh Peach Bellini Cocktail Recipe & The History Of The Bellini

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Peaches and Prosecco: What could be more refreshing? For National Bellini Day, June 23rd, we were inspired to look for the ripest peaches we could find, even though peak peach season is not yet upon us. In the off-season, you can buy frozen peach purée or (surprise!) baby food puréed peaches. Fresh or frozen, you…
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