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 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 2, 2018 - 1st Friday)
- Fritter Thursday: (Feb 15, 2018 -Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
- Ice Cream for Breakfast Day (Feb 3, 2018 -1st Sat)
(Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
- International Pancake Day - (Feb 13, 2018 - Annually on Shrove Tuesday - Feb or March)
[Day of the International Pancake Race]
- IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day: Feb 27, 2018 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Charity Fundraising Event)
- National 30 Hour Famine (Feb 23-24, 2018 and April 27-28, 2018) 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 22, 2018 - 4th Thurs)
- National CSA Day (Feb 23, 2018 - last Fri) [Community Supported Agriculture]
- National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend:
[Girl Scouts of America] (Feb 23-25, 2018)
- National Tartar Sauce Day (Feb 16, 2018 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
- Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 13, 2018 - can be Feb or March) A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
- Pork Rind Appreciation Day (Feb 4, 2018 - Super Bowl Sunday)
- Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 19, 2018 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
- Shrove Tuesday (Feb 13, 2018 - February or March)
- World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 24, 2018 - last Sat) [Sword Swallowers Assoc. Int'l]
- Iceland: Bursting Day (Feb 13, 2018 - On Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March) Feast on mutton and pea soup.
- Iceland: Bun Day (Feb 12, 2018 - 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 4, 2018 - 1st Sunday)
- UK: East Anglia Potato Day (Feb 10, 2018)
- UK: National Toast Day (Feb 22, 2018)
- UK: Welsh Potato Day (Feb 2, 2018)
- Scotland: Oatmeal Monday (Feb 12, 2018 - 2nd Mon in Feb: 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 11-17, 2018 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 26-March 4, 2018)
- National FFA Week: Feb 17-24, 2018 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
- Pancake Week (Feb 12-18, 2018 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
- UK: Bramley Apple Week (Feb 6-12, 2017)
- Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.
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