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FEBRUARY: Today in Food History

See FOOD FESTIVALS & SHOWS for February Food & Beverage Festivals

FEBRUARY IS:

• African American History Month
• American Heart Month
• Bake for Family Fun Month
• Berry Fresh in the Sunshine State Month
• Canned Food Month
• Chocolate Month
• Great American Pies Month
• 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
• National Children's Dental Health Month
• National Grapefruit Month
• National Hot Breakfast Month
• National Potato Lover's Month
• National Snack Food Month
• National Swallowing Disorders Month
• North Carolina Sweet Potato Month
• Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month

 

Variable Date Events

• Bubble Gum Day (1st Friday)
• International Pancake Day Annually on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday
• National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (2/24-3/2, 2013)
• Jell-O Week (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"]
• National Chili Day (4th Thursday)
• National Frozen Yogurt Day (Feb 4, 2013)
• World Sword Swallower's Day (last Sat in February)
• African Heritage & Health Week (Feb 1-7, 2013) (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.) 
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.
• National Pancake Week (can be February or March)
• Shrove Tuesday (can be February or March)
• Iceland: Bursting Day - Feast on mutton & pea soup
• Iceland: Bun Day
• UK: Bramley Apple Week
• UK: Oatmeal Monday (UK Universities)