FEBRUARY: Today in Food History

See also: FOOD FESTIVALS for February

FEBRUARY IS:

• [African American History Month]
   
• [American Heart 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)
   
• Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month (The Florida Strawberry Growers Assn was founded in February 1982)
  (Strawberry Trivia & Facts)
   
• Great American Pies Month (Pie Recipes)
   
• 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)
   
• National Heart Health Month
   
• National Hot Breakfast Month (Breakfast Recipes)
   
• National Potato Lover's Month
  (Potato Recipes - Potato Trivia - Potato History)
   
• 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 1, 2019) (Gum Trivia)
   
• [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 2, 2019 -1st Sat)
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
   
• [National 30 Hour Famine] (Feb 22-23, 2019 and April 26-27, 2019) 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 28, 2019 - 4th Thurs)
  (Chili Recipes)
   
• National CSA Day (Feb 22, 2019 - last Fri)  [Community Supported Agriculture]
   
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend:
  [Girl Scouts of America] (Feb 22-24, 2019)
   
• [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 3, 2019 - Super Bowl Sunday)
   
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 18, 2019 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
   
• Super Bowl Sunday (February 3, 2019)
   
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 23, 2019 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
   
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 3, 2019 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
   
• UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Feb 9, 2019)
   
• UK: [National Toast Day] (Feb 28, 2019)
   
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday (Feb 11, 2019 - 2nd Mon in Feb: Scottish Universities)
   
• Fritter Thursday: (See March for 2019)
• Iceland: Bursting Day (See March for 2019)
• Iceland: Bun Day (See March for 2019)
• IHOP National Pancake  (See March for 2019)
• International Pancake Day (See March for 2019)
• National Tartar Sauce Day (See March for 2019)
• Paczki Day (See March for 2019)
• Shrove Tuesday (See March for 2019)
   

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 10-16, 2019 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)
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 25-March 3, 2019)
   
• National FFA Week: Feb 16-23, 2019 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 25-March 3, 2019) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
   
• Pancake Week (March 4-10, 2019 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] (Feb 25-March 10, 2019) 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 23-March 3, 2019) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.

 

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