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APRIL: Today in Food History

See FOOD FESTIVALS for April Food & Beverage Festivals

APRIL IS:

• Alcohol Awareness Month  (National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - www.ncadd.org/)
• Bacon Month (Baconfest Chicago)
    · Bacon Facts & Trivia  · Bacon Cooking Tips
    · Bacon: the Next Health Craze?
• Defeat Diabetes Month (Defeat Diabetes Foundation)
• Fresh Florida Tomato Month (Florida Tomato Commission - fresh tomatoes are harvested from every growing district in Florida in April)
    · Florida Facts & Trivia  · Tomato Facts & Trivia
    · Tomato Kitchen Tips  · Tomato Recipes
    · Tomatoes and Taxes
• Global Child Nutrition Month (Global Child Nutrition Foundation)
    · Food Scarcity & Hunger Articles
• National B.L.T. Month (origin unknown)
• National Garden Month (National Gardening Assoc)
• National Grange Month (National Grange - advocates for rural America and Agriculture)
• Grilled Cheese Month (origin unknown)
    · International Grilled Cheese
• National Pecan Month (www.ilovepecans.org - National Pecan Shellers Assn)
    · Pecan Facts & Trivia  · A Nut from America
• National Soft Pretzel Month
    · History of the Pretzel
    · Soft Pretzel Recipe  · Another Pretzel Recipe
• National Soyfoods Month (Soyfoods Assoc of North America - www.soyfoods.org)
    · Soybean Facts & Trivia
   

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

DAYS

• Easter Sunday in 2014 is April 20
• Grange Heritage Day (April 20, 2013)
• National Arbor Day (April 25, 2014 - last Friday in April - many states observe different dates according to best local tree planting times)
• National 30 Hour Famine (April 25-26, 2014) Each year, students in the U.S. and around the world unite to learn about hunger, raise funds to help the hungry, and then go hungry themselves for 30 hours! [A program of World Vision]
• Whole Grain Sampling Day (April 2, 2014)
• Bermuda Peppercorn Ceremony  (April 23, 2014 [held on the Wednesday closest to St. George’s Day, April 23]).

WEEKS

• Egg Salad Week in 2014 is April 21-27 (week after Easter, March or April) American Egg Board
  Dedicated to the many delicious uses for all of the Easter eggs that have been cooked, colored, hidden and found.
• National Bake Week (begins 1st Monday ? uncertain)
• National Library Week (April 13-19, 2014)
• National Public Health Week: April 7-13, 2014 (1st full week in April)
• National Procrastination Week was last month
• National Week of the Ocean - March 30-April 5, 2014 (can be in March, April or May)
• Stewardship Week - April 27-May 4, 2014 (last Sun in April to 1st Sun in May) To encourage conserving natural resources for our future. National Association of Conservation Districts
• UK Coffee Week (April 7-13, 2014)
• UK: Canned Food Week (April 14-20, 2014) Celebrating the versatility of canned food.
• UK: National Gardening Week (April 14-20, 2014)