JANUARY: Today in Food History

See FOOD FESTIVALS for January Food & Beverage Festivals

JANUARY IS:

• Bread Machine Baking Month
• Fat Free Living Month
• National Fiber Focus Month
• National Hot Tea Month (?)
• National Mail Order Gardening Month (Direct Gardening Association annual conference is in January)
• National Retail Bakers Month (?)
• National Soup Month
• Oatmeal Month (More oatmeal is eaten in January than any other month)
• Prune Breakfast Month
• Wheat Bread Month
• National Book Month (National Book Month is no longer a program of the National Book Foundation)
   

WEEKS AND VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

• Arbor Day in Florida (Jan 17, 2014 - 3rd Fri)
• Bean Day (Jan 16-17, 2014) Northarvest Bean Growers Association
• National Soup Swap Day ?  (Jan 26 in 2013)
   
• Diet Resolution Week (Jan 1-7, 2014)
• Folic Acid Awareness Week (Jan 5-11, 2014)
• Healthy Weight Week (Jan 19-25, 2014)
• National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week (? 3rd week, but I am uncertain if this is still valid)
• National Pizza Week (Jan 5-11, 2014 - 2nd week)
• UK: Farmhouse Breakfast Week (Jan 26-Feb 1, 2014) Farmhouse Breakfast Week is an annual celebration championing the importance of breakfast which aims to get the nation to Shake Up Their Wake Up!