December Food Days

After taking a bit of a hiatus from blogging, I decided to post the celebrated food days for December at my other blog Months of Edible Celebrations. "See" ya there!!!

October Food Celebrations Revisited

I've updated the monthly food celebrations for October. Here's a taste. It's Apple Month, Seafood Month, Cookbook Month, National Caramel Month, and Cranberry Month. Those are just a few of the monthly food celebrations. You can see the entire list here.

And don't forget, It's National Pizza Month and we're celebrating my Blogoversary and Pizza Month playing the Pizza Party Mix-Up Game. Wanna play??? Click the button!!!

September Food Days 2009

Just a quick note to let visitors know, I've posted a revised list of September monthly food celebrations, and daily ones too, on my other blog. Follow this link to Months of Edible Celebrations!

I'm also giving away two copies of The Best Summer Drinks by Bartender Magazine publisher Ray Foley. Hurry, you have until September 3, 2009 to leave a comment and a chance to WIN!!! See ya there:)

Feasting Our Way in August

Join us as we begin Feasting Our Way in August @ Months of Edible Celebrations

It's Picnic Day!!!

Today is International Picnic Day and You're invited to Play the Picnic Game. Never played the picnic game? Recite after me...I'm going on a picnic and I'm bringing...Come see all the tasty goodies...

More June Recipe Celebrations:

Donald Duck Day
Strawberry Thanksgiving
A Mayberry Holiday
Gone With the Wind
National Candy Month
Midsummer's Eve
Rose O'Neill's Birthday

Previous June Celebrations

June Food Celebrations I
June Food Celebrations II

Betwixt & Between

Happy May Day! I've decided not to post an update for the May food celebrations for 2009. I've had a busy schedule the past couple of weeks and the next couple of days appear to be quite full also. Thankfully, I did two postings for May last year. I've checked the links and they all appear to be in good working order.

On the first post; May Food Celebrations I, there is a list of the monthly May food celebrations. There's also an asparagus recipe from Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book and Brioche of Strawberry a la Hedgehog from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's Salad Appetizer Cook Book.

May Food Celebrations II is all about Salads and Salad Dressings, peppered with additional links and celebrated days. The Salad Recipe Poem is quite alluring as are the recipes for Lettuce Omelet Salad a la Aurorian and Mrs. Bradley's Salad Dressings.

I did a quick post for May Day, 2009 @ Months of Edible Celebrations and will posting again tomorrow for Dandelion Day or Free Comic Book Day, I haven't decided yet:) On Monday, May 4th, I will be announcing a Free Cook Book Give-Away also on my other blog, Months of Edible Celebrations. I can't tell you much about it yet however, I can say it is a newly published book which I have been asked to review. The book falls right in line with another important day which will be celebrated next week so be sure and check it out.

If you are still wondering what daily food events are to be celebrated this month, you can always check the calendar in the left hand corner. I usually update it with links each month. Google has recently changed the layout of the their calendar but I'm pretty sure I've covered the links in the where section of the calendar. There is also a whole list of resources for food holidays on the left hand side of this page. Thanks for stopping in at the Kettledrum. I hope to "see" you over at my other blog in time for the Free Cook Book Give-Away. Happy May Day! Louise:)

April Food Celebrations

Beckoning from blue or storm skies,

April smiles, and then April sighs...

~Louise Bates~

April is exploding with all kinds of food celebrations. There are festivals, fairs and other monthly and daily food celebrations just waiting to be celebrated. I better get right to them...

April Monthly Celebrations

Most of these links will take you to another site. If I have previously posted about them, I will note it.
1. National Fresh Celery Month
2. National Fresh Florida Tomato Month
3. National Pecan Month I celebrated Pecan Day in March!
4. I celebrated Grilled Cheese Month last year.
5. Soy Foods Month

Daily Food Celebrations

The Loves of Brillat-Savarin are celebrated each year around his birthday (April 1st) at the International Edible Book Festival where the rules are quite simple. "Your entry of edible art must have something to do with books as shapes and/or content, or be based on a book title, a book cover, or book character(s)."

The man who patented a method for the production of aluminum as in foil, received his patent on April 2, 1889. His name was Charles Martin Hall. Just think how many times aluminum foil has made our days easier!

Did you know, Giacomo Girolamo Casanova ate 50 raw oysters every morning? Oysters are considered the food of love and we've all heard those rumors about Casanova. Celebrate his birthday April 2nd 1725 with Oysters!

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day is April 2nd. It says so right here!

National Cordon Bleu Day is celebrated on April 4th.

On April 5, 1864 American industrialist George Pullman received a patent for his invention of the railroad sleeper car. Been to any diners lately?

On the morning of April 6, 1938, DuPont chemist Roy Plunkett accidentally created Teflon.

Eat a Twinkie today. April 6, 1930 is the day they were first baked by James Dewar. I posted about the Tweaking of Twinkies last year. 

Does anyone know if Charlie the Starkist Tuna celebrates Sorry Charlie Day on April 6th? Everyone else does. I didn't I celebrated Charlie in November. See why!

National Tartan Day is celebrated by those with a Scottish Heritage. It's always on April 6th.

Will Keith Kellogg was born in Battle Creek, Michigan on April 7, 1860. Did you have your bowl of Corn Flakes this morning? I celebrated National Cereal Day in March with a really cool Kelloggs booklet called Jungleland. Go see:)

Sit back, relax, April 7th not only National Coffee Cake Day, it's No Housework Day too!

According to Pennsylvania German folklore the day before Good Friday is Green Thursday. Good Friday is April 10th this year.

The pharmacist who invented Vernor's Ginger Ale was born on April 11, 1843. His name was James Vernor Sr.  Celebrate his birthday with these recipes for Vernor's Mint Julep & Vernor's Punch. Have a fondue with that punch, April 11 is also National Cheese Fondue Day! What does Ginger Ale have to do with Prohibition I wonder?

There's a Strawberry Festival Saturday, April 11, 2009, in Loxley, Alabama. Yum strawberry season is approaching! Have you ever shared a Strawberry Thanksgiving?

Looks like it isn't only National Grilled Cheese Month, April 12th is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day!

I'll be back in a few days with the rest of the daily food celebrations for April. Get ready to celebrate Thomas Jefferson, the Italian Queen of French Cuisine; Catherine de Medici, National Empanada Day, and National Pretzel Day. See in a few...