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See also: FOOD FESTIVALS for February

FEBRUARY IS:

• [Black 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)
   
• Grain of the Month: Barley [Whole Grains Council]
   
• 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 3, 2023 1st Fri) (Gum Trivia)
   
• Fritter Thursday: Feb 23, 2023 (Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Apple Fritter Recipe Video)
   
• [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 4, 2023 -1st Sat)
  (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
   
• International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; Feb 23, 2023 - Can be Feb or March)  [Day of the International Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas] (Pancake Trivia  ---  Pancake Recipes)
   
• [IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day] Feb 28, 2023 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Annual Charity Fundraising Event - can be Feb or March)
   
• [National 30 Hour Famine] (Choose your own date for 2023) 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 23, 2023 - 4th Thurs)
  (Chili Recipes  ---  Chili Quotes)
   
• National Tartar Sauce Day (Feb 24, 2023 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
   
• Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 21, 2023 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
   
• [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 12, 2023 - Super Bowl Sunday)
   
• Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 20, 2023 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
   
• Shrove Tuesday (Feb 21, 2023) - 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 12, 2023)
   
• World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 25, 2023 - last Sat)
   
• Iceland: Bun Day: Feb 20, 2023 (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 21, 2023) - Feast on mutton and pea soup. (Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
   
• UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 5, 2023 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
   
• UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Feb 11, 2023)
   
• UK: [National Toast Day] (Feb 23, 2023)
   
• Scotland: Oatmeal Monday: (Feb 13, 2023 - 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 12-18, 2023 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  ---  Jello Quotes)
   
• Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 12-18, 2023)
   
• National CSA Week (Feb 20-26, 2023) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture
   
• [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 27-March 5, 2023)
   
• National FFA Week: Feb 18-25, 2023 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
   
• [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 20-26, 2023) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
   
• Pancake Week (Feb 20-26, 2023 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
  (Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Trivia)
   
• Pride in Foodservice Week (Feb 6-10, 2023)  [Assoc. of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals]
   
• UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] (Feb 27-March 12, 2023) 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 18-26, 2023) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
   
• Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.