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See also: FOOD FESTIVALS for February

FEBRUARY IS:

• [African American History Month]
   
• [American Heart Month]
• National Heart Health Month
   
• Bake for Family Fun Month [Home Baking Association]
  (Baking Articles and Tips)
   
• Canned Food Month [Canned Food Alliance]
  (Can Trivia & Facts  -  Canned Food History)
   
• Chocolate Lovers Month
  (Chocolate Trivia  ---  Chocolate Quotes)
   
• Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month (The Florida Strawberry Growers Assn was founded in February 1982)
  (Strawberry Trivia  ---  Strawberry Quotes)
   
• Great American Pies Month
  (Pie Recipes  ---  Pie Trivia  ---  Pie Quotes)
   
• National Bird Feeding Month - In January 1994, Illinois 10th District Congressman John Porter read a resolution in the Congressional Record making February National Bird Feeding Month. The observance was established because it's one of the most difficult months in much of the U.S. for birds to survive in the wild.
   
• National Cherry Month [Cherry Marketing Inst]
  (Cherry Facts & Trivia)
   
• National Children's Dental Health Month
  [American Dental Association]
   
• National Grapefruit Month
  (Grapefruit Trivia  ---  Grapefruit Quotes)
   
• National Hot Breakfast Month (Breakfast Recipes)
  (Breakfast Trivia  ---  Breakfast Quotes)
   
• National Potato Lover's Month (Potato Recipes)
  Potato Trivia --- Potato History --- Potato Quotes)
   
• National Snack Food Month
   
• Sweet Potato Month [N.C. Sweet Potato Comm.]
  (Sweet Potato Trivia  --  Sweet Potato Recipes)
   
• Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
  (Shopping Cart Inventor Sylvan Goldman)

VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

DAYS

• Bubble Gum Day (Feb 5, 2021) (Gum Trivia)
   
• Fritter Thursday: Feb 18, 2021 (Thursday after Shrove Tuesday - can be February or March)
  Apple Fritter Recipe Video
   
• [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 6, 2021 -1st Sat)
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
   
• [IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day] Feb 16, 2021 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Annual Charity Fundraising Event - can be Feb or March)
   
• International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; Feb 16, 2021 - Can be Feb or March)  [International Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas]
  (Pancake Trivia  ---  Pancake Recipes)
   
• [National 30 Hour Famine] (Feb 26-27, 2021) 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 Chili Day (Feb 25, 2021 - 4th Thurs)
  (Chili Recipes  ---  Chili Quotes)
   
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend:
  [Girl Scouts of America] (Feb 19-21, 2021)
   
• National Tartar Sauce Day (Feb 19, 2021 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
   
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 16, 2021 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
   
• [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 7, 2021 - Super Bowl Sunday)
   
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 15, 2021 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
   
• Shrove Tuesday (Feb 16, 2021 - can be Feb or March) Also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras Day. Tommorrow is Ash Wednesday, beginning 6 weeks of fasting for Christians, leading up to Easter.
   
• Super Bowl Sunday (February 7, 2021)
   
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 27, 2021 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
   
• Iceland: Bun Day: Feb 15, 2021 (Mon before Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or Mar). Children invade homes in the morning with colorful sticks and recieve gifts of whipped cream buns.
   
• Iceland: Bursting Day: Feb 16, 2021 - Feast on mutton and pea soup. (Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 7, 2021 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
   
• UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Cancelled for 2021 due to Coronavirus)
   
• UK: [National Toast Day] (Feb 25, 2021)
   
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday: (Feb 8, 2021 - 2nd Mon in February: Scottish Universities)
   

WEEKS

• [African Heritage & Health Week] (Feb 1-7) (commemorates the foods, flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of African ancestors from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the American South.)
   
• Jell-O Week (Feb 14-20, 2021 2nd full week in Feb)  in 2001 Jell-O was declared Official State Snack of Utah and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt declared an annual "Jell-O Week." (Jello Trivia)
   
• Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 14-20, 2021)
   
• National CSA Week (Feb 21-28, 2021) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 22-28, 2021)
   
• National FFA Week: Feb 20-27, 2021 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 22-26, 2021) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
   
• Pancake Week (Feb 14-20, 2021 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Trivia)
   
• Pride in Foodservice Week (Feb 1-5, 2021)  [Assoc. of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals]
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] (Feb 22-March 7, 2021) Celebrate the people who grow our food, people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and who are often exploited and badly paid.
   
• UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 20-28, 2021) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.