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APRIL: Today in Food History

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See also FOOD FESTIVALS for April

APRIL IS:

• Alcohol Awareness Month  (National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence - www.ncadd.org/)
   
• 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 (Nat’l 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 ((Began in 1996 by the Soyfoods Assn of North America)
  
  · Soybean Facts & Trivia
   

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

DAYS

• Easter Sunday in 2017 is April 16 (can be March or April)
• National Arbor Day [Arbor Day Foundation]
  (April 28, 2017 - last Friday in April - many states observe different dates according to best local tree planting times)
• National 30 Hour Famine (Feb 24-25 & April 28-29, 2017) 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!
• National English Muffin Day (April 23, 2017)
  [Thomas’ English Muffins]
• Raw-Milk Cheese Appreciation Day (April 22, 2017) An international celebration of raw-milk cheese.
  [Oldways Cheese Coalition]
• Bermuda Peppercorn Ceremony  (April 19, 2017: held on the Wednesday closest to St. George’s Day, April 23) [peppercornbda.com]

WEEKS

• Egg Salad Week in 2017 is April 17-23 (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 Library Week (April 9-15, 2017)
    [American Library Association]
• National Public Health Week: April 3-9, 2017 (1st full week in April) [American Public Health Assoc.]
• National Procrastination Week was last month
• Stewardship & Education Week - April 30-May 7, 2017 (last Sun in April to 1st Sun in May) [Nat’l Assoc. of Conservation Districts] To encourage conserving natural resources for our future.
• UK Coffee Week (April 10-16, 2017 - can be April or May)
• UK: National Gardening Week: April 10-16, 2017
  [Royal Horticultural Society]