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See FOOD FESTIVALS for February Food & Beverage Festivals

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
• Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month (The Florida Strawberry Growers Assn was founded in February 1982)
• 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 Hot Breakfast Month (Breakfast Recipes)
• National Potato Lover's Month (Potato Recipes - Potato Trivia & Facts - 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 5, 2016 - 1st Friday)
• Fritter Thursday: (Feb 11, 2016 -Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
• International Pancake Day - (Feb 9, 2016 -  Annually on Shrove Tuesday - Feb or March)
• National 30 Hour Famine (Feb 26-27, 2016 and April 29-30, 2016) 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, 2016 - 4th Thurs)
• National Frozen Yogurt Day (Feb 6, 2016)
• Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (Feb 6, 2016 -1st Sat)
  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cream_for_Breakfast_Day]
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
• National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend: Girl Scouts of America (Feb 26-28, 2016)
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 9, 2016 - can be Feb or March) A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
• Pork Rind Appreciation Day (Feb 7, 2016 - Super Bowl Sunday)
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 15, 2016 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
• Shrove Tuesday (Feb 9, 2016 - February or March)
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 27, 2016 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
• Iceland: Bursting Day (Feb 9, 2016 - On Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March) Feast on mutton and pea soup.
• Iceland: Bun Day (Feb 8, 2016 - 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.
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 7, 2016 - 1st Sunday)
• UK: East Anglia Potato Day (Feb 13, 2016)
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday (Feb 8, 2016 - 2nd Mon in Feb: Scottish Universities)

WEEKS

• African Heritage & Health Week (Feb 1-7, 2016) (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 7-13, 2016 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 Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 21-27, 2016)
• National FFA Week: Feb 20-27, 2016 (Future Farmers of America) Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
• Pancake Week (Feb 7-13, 2016 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
• UK: Bramley Apple Week (Feb 8-14, 2016)
• World Salt Awareness Week (Feb 29-March 6, 2016) [On March 12, 1930 Mahatma Gandhi began his march to the coastal village of Dandi, to protest the British salt monopoly].
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.