May
 National Artisan Gelato Month
National Asparagus Month
National Barbecue Month
National Chocolate Custard Month
National Egg Month
National Hamburger Month
National Macaroon Day
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month
National Strawberry Month
- 5 - Cinco de Mayo
- 8 - D'Artagnan Duckathlon, New York, New York
Watch hundreds of New York's top professional chefs compete in a 20-stop "obstacle" coarse through New York's meatpacking district. Events include cheese identification, "what's that pot?," rubber duck feet race, and blind-folded brandy tasting.
- 11 - Mother’s Day
- 26 - Memorial Day
 June
National Candy Month
National Dairy Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Hunger Awareness Month
National Iced Tea Month
National Seafood Month
National Soul Food Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
- 3 - Taste of the Nation
- 3-5 - Interfood China 2008, Guangzhou (Canton), China
The 5th China International Foodstuff Exposition
Currenly with: Interwine China 2008
- 6-8 - 2008 Coffest Fest, Kona, Hawaii
- 12-15 - 36th Annual Chisholm Trail Roundup BBQ, Lockhart, Texas
With Music Festival & Kiwanis Rodeo - Always 2nd week in June
- 14 - Flag Day
- 15 - Father’s Day
- 20 - First day of summer
- 22-24 - Texas Restaurant Association Expo, Houston
- 29-July 1 - NASFT 54th Summer Fancy Foods Show, New York, New York
More than 2,100 exhibitors from around the world, presenting more than 100,000 specialty foods to discover and sample.
July
Lasagna Awareness Month
National Baked Bean Month
National Culinary Arts Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National July Belongs to Blueberries Month
National Picnic Month
National Pickle Month
- 1-2 - Bocuse d’Or Europe 2008, Stavanger, Norway
New European edition of Bocuse d’Or World Cuisine Contest.
- 4, Independence Day
- 12-13 - Annual World's Largest Catsup Bottle Summerfest, Collinsville, Illinois.
Help celebrate the world-famous Brooks Catsup Bottle water tower. What could be better than a red, white & blue birthday party for this incredible example of 20th century roadside America? A nation-wide, grassroots community effort saved this landmark from demolition and restored it to its original glory in 1995. Join in the Brooks Ketchup Tasting Contest and see you will be crowned Little Princess Tomato and Sir Catsup!
- 18-19 - California Wine Festival, Santa Barbara, California
5th Annual Reds, Whites & Blues. Santa Barbara's own big-time wine festival hits the beach again in 2008! Guests sample from over 400 great California wines and dozens of gourmet food purveyors supply delectable tidbits, artisan cheeses, craft beers, barbequed meats, and more!
 August
National Catfish Month
Peach Month
September
 All-American Breakfast Month
Hug a Texas Chef Month
Mom & Apple Pie Month
National Biscuit Month
National Chicken Month
National Cholesterol Awareness Month
National '5-A-Day' Month (fruits & vegetables)
National Honey Month
National Mushroom Month (Duuude)
National Organic Harvest Month
National Papaya Month
National Potato Month
National Rice Month
- 1 - Labor Day
- 1 - Ramadan begins at sundown
- 22 - First day of Autumn
- 23-26 - TECNO FIDTA 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina
9th International Food Technology, Additives, and Ingredients Exhibition
- 26 - State Fair begins
- 29 - Rash Hashanah begins at sundown
October
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Cook Book Month, Gourmet Adventures Month
Hunger Awareness Month
National Apple Month
National Applejack Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Cookie Month
National Country Ham Month
National Dessert Month
National Health Care Food Service Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Pasta Month
National Pickled Peppers Month
National Pizza Festival Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
National Pretzel Month
National Restaurant Hospitality Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Seafood Month
National Spinach-Lovers' Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month
- 8 - Yom Kippur begins at sundown
- 13 - Columbus Day
- 19-23 - SIAL: The Global Food Marketplace, Paris, France
SIAL showcases the entire global food offering, promoting the energy and vitality of the food industry in France and internationally. (every 2 years)
- 31 - Halloween
November
Good Nutrition Month
National Diabetes Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers' Month
National Pepper Month
National Raisin Bread Month
Vegan Awareness Month
December
International Calendar Awareness Month
- 21 - Hanukkah begins at sundown
- 21 - First day of winter
- 25 - Christmas Day
- 31 - New Year’s Eve
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"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."
— James Beard
"Beef is the soul of cooking."
— Marie-Antoine Carême (1784-1833)
“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry V
“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”
— Fran Lebowitz
"Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef."
— Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
“Sometimes I pray to Cod for the veal-power to stop playing with my food words, but I fear it's too bread into me. For all I know, the wurst may be yet to come.”
— Mark Morton,
'Arts & Scantlings' (Gastronomica, Fall 2006)
"Cuisine is both an art and a science: it is an art when it strives to bring about the realization of the true and the beautiful, called le bon (the good) in the order of culinary ideas. As a science, it respects chemistry, physics and natural history. Its axioms are called aphorisms, its theorems recipes, and its philosophy gastronomy."
— Lucien Tendret (1825-1896)
great-nephew of Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
"Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution."
— Irwin Van Grove
“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”
— Fran Lebowitz ('Metropolitan Life')
“I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.”
— Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential (2000)
“Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.”
— Alexis Soyer 19th century French chef.
The Modern Housewife (1851)
“Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread --- there may be."
— David Grayson, 'Adventures in Contentment' (1907)
“Sacred cows make the best hamburger.”
— Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) |
