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World Vegetarian Day. Pixabay.com / 2010 / CC0 1.0 The 1st of October is World Vegetarian Day. Being a Vegetarian isn’t anything new, as many people think it is. Ancient Greece had Vegetarian movements, such as the one started by Pythagoras. Rome did, too. [1] Still, vegetarians were always seen as a bit out of...
Klicking Karl / wikimedia / 2007 / CC BY-SA 3.0 The Goose Fair is held in Nottingham, England, every year in October. It’s opened by the mayor of Nottingham who gets to ring silver bells to mark the opening, and lasts for 3 days. The fair has been running for at least 300 years. Traditionally,...
Vodka Day. Kerstin Riemer / Pixabay.com / 2015 / CC0 1.0 For some people, Vodka Day comes more than once a year — and they know by 9 in the morning whether it’s going to be a Vodka Day or not. If you’re a classic Martini person, today might be a good day to deviate...
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving in Canada is now a long-weekend food festival to celebrate the harvest. Though religious in origin, it is now largely secular and celebrated by people of most faiths and cultural origins. It’s officially on a Monday, and a paid-day off for everyone: many Canadians, though, hold the big meal on the Sunday evening...
When’s the last time you made Angel Food Cake? When’s the last time you even had any? Though it fell out of fashion in the last decades of the twentieth century, it’s a cake that is almost fat-free. Not even the pans get greased, and though eggs are used, the yolks are left out. Angel...
Henry John Heinz Birthday The 11th of October is the birthday of Henry John Heinz. Born in 1844, he had the brilliant idea at the age of 25 to start selling food products in clear glass bottles, so that people could see what they were buying. Before that, consumers often mistrusted what was lurking inside...
Sausage Pizza Day. Lancaster314 / wikiemdia / 2013 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Sausage Pizza Day occurs during Pizza Month. Yes, just merely thinking about Sausage Pizza may make your trousers feel tighter, but remember it’s a holiday, and besides, nothing says the sausage on your pizza has to be the classic, pork sausage: you can...
Gumbo Day. Jeffrey W. / Flickr / 2014 / CC BY 2.0 Gumbo Day occurs around the start of the autumn in North America. In southern Louisiana, home of gumbo, it’s considered a good food to keep you warm in cold weather. Gumbo takes a few hours to make. The hardest part is the roux...
Wall mural of St Gallus from St. Venantius Church, Horgenzell, Baden-Württemberg. Andreas Praefcke / wikimedia / 2006 / Public Domain The 16th of October is the feast day of St Gallus. Many agricultural traditions were centred on St Gallus Day. Rain on this day was good fortune; All fruit to be used as seed for...
World Food Day Logo World Food Day is sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, to mark the day that the FAO was founded in 1945. Promotion of the day started in 1979. Each year there is a different theme. The themes are never anything “woo hoo” like chocolate or...
Alaska Day marks the day that Alaska officially became American soil. On 18 October 1867 at 3:30 in the afternoon, the Russian flag (the Double Eagle Imperial flag at the time) was lowered and the American flag raised at the Governor’s House on Castle Hill in Sitka, Alaska in the presence of both American and...
Apple Day is celebrated every October in England. Events are held at orchards and garden nurseries around the country, from apple bobbing to apple peeling contests.
To be fair, there is actually no fixed agreement on when Canning Day actually is. Some people celebrate it around the third week of November, just before American Thanksgiving.
Woohoo, it’s Baloney Day! In some American towns, the highlight of the year is Baloney Day. A Baloney Day is held the first weekend of every September in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Bologna Day is even celebrated all over Europe. The first one in Austria, for example, was held on 21 June 2000. The Bologna Day in...
Fast food stand in Blackpool, England. Christian Cable / Wikimedia / 2006 / CC BY 2.0 French Fries, Potato Pancakes, Hamburgers, Fish and Chips….. we’re all being told over and over not to eat them, and the reason why we have to be told over and over is that we love them so much. The...
Pumpkin Day © Alexandra / pixabay.com / 2015 / CC0 1.0 Pumpkin Day is the 26th of October. You might think this is a great time to cook something with the insides of the Jack-O-Lantern you have just carved for Hallowe’en. But the flesh of those makes poor eating, and is best reserved for feeding...
Alaska wild berries. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Wikimedia / 2005 / Public Domain Wild Foods Day is one day for sure on which all kinds of clever people can make their “stalking the wild asparagus” jokes. Some wild life parks who observe Wild Foods Day will observe it sometime around 28th October, either...
Hallowe’en © Denzil Green The 31st of October is the day when the veil between this world and other worlds is thought to be thin. Oblivious to this, children dress in costumes and go door to door for candy. Hallowe’en celebrations generally involve a spooky theme, invoking the traditional colours of black and orange. People...
Samhain 2006. Clothahump / Flickr / 2006/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Samhain celebrations start on the evening of the 31st of October. Samhain marks the end of the summer and is the last harvest celebration. It is sometimes thought of as the end of a year, though the Celtic New Year didn’t start until Yule (Christmas)...
Thomas Bellacci (aka Thomas of Florence, 1370 to 1447 AD), a patron of butchers, was a butcher's son. He was born in Florence, Italy, of parents who came from Castello di Linari in Val d'Elsa.