Category: Food Holidays & More

TIP OF THE DAY: Have An Ice Cream Tasting

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Celebrate National Strawberry Ice Cream Day by tasting 4-6 different brands. Your favorite may surprise you. Photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.   Today is National Strawberry Ice Cream Day, a good excuse to have an ice cream tasting. Most of us keep buying Brand 1 out of habit; but perhaps we’d prefer Brand 2,…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Peach Melba Day & Peach Melba Recipe

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January 13th is National Peach Melba Day, but why? Peaches aren’t in season until June. It was invented for a summer celebration! But, if you must have one out-of-season, you can forge ahead in the recipe below with frozen peaches.     PEACH MELBA HISTORY Peach Melba (its original title was in French, Pêche Melba)…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Hot Buttered Rum Recipe With Caramel

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A hot toddy is a warm cocktail made with boiling water, sugar and spices, plus other ingredients—hot buttered rum is one such variation. (Read the History of Hot Buttered Rum.) Celebrate National Hot Toddy Day on January 11th with a luscious cocktail from Ron Abuelo, a dark oak-aged rum from Panama. This Hot Caramel Buttered…
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RECIPE: Chocolate-Dipped Apricots (Or Anything Chocolate-Dipped)…& More

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January 9th is National Apricot Day. We’re not sure why, since apricot season in the U.S. is from May through August (any fresh apricots found in the winter months have made a long trip from the southern hemisphere). Yet, you can toast the day with an apricot brandy sour, have apricot jam on your toast…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Try A Great Fruitcake…And The Right Drink To Pair With It

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December 27th is National Fruitcake Day and December is National Fruitcake Month. The most maligned food in America is not cilantro. It is fruitcake. Unlike cilantro, which delivers a consistent take-it-or-leave-it flavor, regardless of where it is grown, it is producers who have manipulated cheap ingredients and preservatives into frightful fruitcakes. But yes, Virginia, there…
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