nPostednon January 16, 2016
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nPeoplenlike to eat yummy food. I guess, since people have to eat every day,nwhy not make eating fun and delicious? And most holidays have theirnshare of feasting and special foods that go along with that day –nlike turkey dinner on Thanksgiving, chocolate eggs on Easter, andncake on birthdays.
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nButnthen there are all those days that are NOT major holidays…and mostnof them are dedicated to one food or another!
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nTodaynis Soup Swap Day, Fig Newton Day, and International Hot and SpicynFood Day!
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nAndnthe entire month of January is Hot Tea Month, Oatmeal Month, SlownCooking Month, Soup Month, Baking Month, and Fat Free Living Month!
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nAndnevery day seems to be some sort of special day to honor a food (orntwo, or three). Check out this calendar from Foodimentary.
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nSpeakingnof Foodimentary, I read that food writer John-Bryan Hopkins, whonfounded the popular website, did some research when he started hisnfood blog, trying to gather together all of the various food holidaysnstared by organizations and companies, probably to promote theirnparticular product. He discovered about 175 food holidays. Clearly,nmany days were not designated as any particular food holiday – sonHopkins simply shrugged his shoulders and filled in the rest of ancalendar so that there was at least one food holiday per day of thenyear!
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nInsuppose a food writer creating a day honoring Oreo cookies (March 6)nis at least as valid as the marketing department of a companyncreating the same food holiday, right?
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nAnyway,nI’m not sure if Hopkins made up any of today’s food holidays, butnlet’s check them out:
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SoupnSwap Day
SoupnSwap Dayn
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nThisnholiday was definitely not a Hopkins creation. Instead, a fellownnamed Knox Gardner started the day in Seattle, Washington. By 2006,nthe holiday was being celebrated by people all over the U.S., andntoday the day has gone global.
Soup Swap Day isn’t always onnJanuary 16; rather, it’s the third Saturday of January. The idea isnto gather family and friends, each bringing homemade soup in enoughnsmall containers to pass out to other guests. Of course, the hostnalso shares homemade soup pre-packed in containers for the others tontake home.
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nEveryonentakes home the same number of containers she or he brought – but itnwill be a variety of soups!
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nInbet most who celebrate Soup Swap Day serve hot soup to the gathering.nThat way the day goes like this: make soup, bring soup, eat soup,ntake home soup.
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nFignNewton Day
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Inn1891 an American man named James Henry Mitchell invented a machine that was like a funnel-within-a-funnel. And the folks at Kennedy Biscuit Worksn(which later became Nabisco) realized that they could use thisnmachine to make fig cookies using a recipe they had purchased fromnanother fellow.
Inn1891 an American man named James Henry Mitchell invented a machine that was like a funnel-within-a-funnel. And the folks at Kennedy Biscuit Worksn(which later became Nabisco) realized that they could use thisnmachine to make fig cookies using a recipe they had purchased fromnanother fellow.n
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nThenoutside funnel of the machine pushed out the cookie dough, and theninside funnel pushed out fig jam.
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nLoooooooooong filled cookies werenproduced in this way and then cut into smaller pieces.
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nCheck out this video of the manufacture of fig cookies.
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nThencookies were called Newton because they were “born” in Newton,nMassachusetts.
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nBynthe way, the Newton is one of Nabisco’s top sellers, with more than anbillion bars sold a year!
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nInternationalnHot and Spicy Food Day
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nPeoplenhave been using hot spices in their food – to preserve the food, tonpromote health, and of course to provide flavor! – for more thann6,000 years.
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nCheck out the Greatist list of spices, the guide to using spices found at WikiHow,nand the article on health benefits of spices found at AuthorityNutrition.
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nAlsonon this date:
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Primatologist Dian Fossey’s birthday
Primatologist Dian Fossey’s birthday
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nBirthdaynof cyborg-enabler Anders Ekeberg
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nReligiousnFreedom Day
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nNationalnNothing Day
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nAppreciatena Dragon Day
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nGreatnDay for Skates
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nPolarnBear Jump-Off in Alaska
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