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St David’s Day Celebration, Cardiff Bay, March 1st 2009. National Assembly for Wales / 2009 / CC BY 2.0 St David is the patron saint of Wales. He is reputed to have had his soldiers attach leeks to their caps so they could distinguish themselves from their enemies. This is, sadly, almost certainly a myth...
The Doll Festival is an unofficial, fun holiday in Japan, mostly for small girls. In Japanese, the holiday is called “Hina matsuri” (“Hina” means a “doll” in Japanese.) Girls arrange their collection of dolls for proud display on tiered stands in their living rooms. The collection is meant to represent a royal wedding party sometime...
Poundcake with icing drizzle. Pixel1 / pixabay.com / 2015 / CC0 1.0 The 4th of March is Pound Cake Day. If the day has crept up on you caught you unawares so that you don’t have time to make one, you could always sneak out to the grocery and buy some. Why’s it called a...
Basket of fresh pretzels. Sabine Schulte / Pixabay.com / 2012 / CC0 1.0 Pretzel Sunday is observed on 4th Sunday before Easter in Luxembourg, where it’s called “Bretzelsonndeg.” A boy can offer a pretzel to a girl he fancies. If she accepts, the boy can visit her house on Easter, and expect to be given...
Frozen Food Day The 6th of March is Frozen Food Day; in fact, all of March is Frozen Food Month. People have been freezing food for millennia, whether on purpose, or, by accident. Anytime the snow fell and the lakes froze up, anything you left outside froze right up with everything else, too. Of course,...
Today is reputedly the day on which to enjoy a Crown Roast of Pork.
Barbie Millicent Roberts was born on this day in 1959. Well, perhaps not born, but she had her debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. Barbie was invented by Ruth Handler (whose husband Elliot was co-founder of the Mattel Toy Company.) Barbie was actually based on a doll called “Bild Lilli”...
The 9th of March marks the end of the Pastry War between Mexico and France. Treat yourself to a pastry! The war started in the spring of 1838. A French pastry chef, Monsieur Remontel, who had come to Veracruz, Mexico and set up a pastry shop, lodged an appeal with King Louis-Philippe (1773 – 1850)...
Simnel Cake © Denzil Green Mother’s Day in the UK has been celebrated on the fourth Sunday in Lent since at least the 1500s. For a long time, it had nothing to do with mothers. Instead, it was the day when people who had moved away from parish churches that they had attended when they...
A Penny Loaf was a common size loaf of bread in England set down by the Assize of Bread Act in 1226. The actual cost and weight of the bread, however, would vary based on the flour that had been used. In 1644 during the English Civil War, in Newark, Nottingham, a man named Hercules...
Potato Chip Day: the day on which you get to have one potato chip, but then have to stop… Several ways to honour the day: Try cooking with potato chips today. Crumble them on top of a baked pasta or casserole in place of bread crumbs before you pop the dish in the oven; Try...
Oranges and Lemons © Denzil Green Oranges and Lemons Day takes place every year in London, usually on the third Thursday of March [1], even when Easter or St Patrick’s Day intervenes, at the Church of St Clement Danes in London. Children who go to the nearby St Clement Danes Church of England Primary School...
The 16th of March is the birthday of CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale. It was founded on this day in 1971 by young journalists from the Manchester and Liverpool areas.
St Patrick’s Day St Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate all things Irish. As a major festival, it was big first in America before it was in Ireland — just as Cinco de Mayo is coming to be a bigger deal now in America than it is in Mexico. Though held in honour of...
Carling Sunday, otherwise known as Passion Sunday, is celebrated in Scotland and in northern England on the fifth Sunday in Lent, two Sundays from Easter. Boiled, fried dried peas known as "carlings" are served.
National Agriculture Day has been celebrated annually since 1973 in America on the first day of spring (Northern Hemisphere spring, that is.) It is organized by The Agriculture Council of America, a non-profit organization. The day is designed to educate people about the role of agriculture, and to encourage young people to consider careers in...
The 20th of March is Ravioli Day! If it’s a weekend, see if you can talk a group of friends into coming round in the afternoon and making the Ravioli for dinner from scratch. If it’s a weeknight, well, you can cheat and buy a canned version, and call it “Canned Ravioli Day.” Italians might...
Most people think of French bread as bread with a crisp crust and slightly chewy centre, and usually in a stick form. But there are so many different kinds of French bread. Broaden your horizon today by reading all about them, and exploring CooksInfo.com’s many entries on French breads and flours. And then, by all...
Fannie Merritt Farmer was born on this day, 23 March, in 1857 in Boston. She revolutionized the way Americans cook.
March 23rd is “Toast Day”, (believe it or not.) Reputedly, it was chosen because it was the day that Nellie Melba revealed her Melba Toast recipe in 1901. Though this has myth all over it — for starters, it wasn’t her recipe — any day’s a good day for toast.
Chocolate covered raisins can be very hard to stop eating, as they are so morish! Well, here's a day where you don't have to stop yourself!
The 25th of March celebrates Greece regaining its freedom after centuries of occupation. As it falls in the middle of Lent, though, which is observed in the Greek Orthodox Church, the special holiday foods that can be used have to be filtered through religious constraints. No meat is allowed — but then the Greek diet...
The 25th of March is Lady Day, or the “Annunciation” in the Christian Church calendar. Falling as it did during Lent, people would make a special effort to make what they were allowed to eat during Lent more interesting, as it was a “Feast” day on the Church calendar. The annunciation is an event found...