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Last Updated October 2025
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January Food Holidays
Happy New Year! The Holidays (Food Holidays, That Is) Are Just Beginning!
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A whole new year of food holidays means more than 365 days of different food festivities. Each month has foods with entire dedicated feasting months, plus foods with special feasting weeks.
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Other yummy food holidays:
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 Discover some new cheeses on January 20th, National Cheese Lovers Day. These goat cheese crottins are from one of our favorite cheesemakers, Vermont Creamery. Another of our favorite cheeses is Cowgirl Creamery’s Red Hawk. Both are NIBBLE Top Picks Of The Week. |
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German Chocolate Cake is just one of the delicious options for Chocolate Cake Day, January 27. Photo courtesy MackenzieLtd.com. German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany. Here’s the scoop. |
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*National Bagel Day is January 15th. National Bagels & Lox Day is February 9th. National Bagelfest Day is July 26th. In 2018, the Thomas’ English Muffin division of Bimbo Bakeries USA decided to move the date from February 9 to January 15 to avoid competing with National Pizza Day. However, this was a marketing decision of a single company and not an “official” holiday.
**National Hot & Spicy Food Day is August 19th.
***National Pancake Day is March 5th. International Pancake Day is held on Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday), which can be the last Tuesday in February or the first Tuesday in March
****World Kombucha Day is February 21st.
*****National Cocoa Day is December 3th.
†Hot Toddy Day (1/11) and Hot Buttered Rum Day (1/17) celebrate almost the same drink. A hot toddy can be made with any spirit, whereas hot buttered rum is made with rum.
††Farmhouse Breakfast Week: This is the date established by the Farmers’ Union of Wales (FUW). Elsewhere in the U.K., it is celebrated in November.
†††There are two National Buttercrunch Days: National Buttercrunch Day on January 20th and National Almond Buttercrunch Day on June 29th. January 20th celebrates the diversity of buttercrunch recipes, including those with other nuts or no nuts at all. We’ve found recipes online that use most of the popular nuts, from pecans and pistachios to macadamias and walnuts. In fact, Brown & Haley, the company whose Almond Roca popularized almond buttercrunch, also sells Macadamia Roca. National Almond Buttercrunch Day on June 29th focuses on the classic almond version, which is the most widely recognized.
The Almond Roca brand was created in 1923 by Harry Brown and J.C. Haley of the Brown & Haley company in Tacoma, Washington. They created a buttercrunch toffee coated in milk chocolate and encrusted with chopped almonds. The name roca, meaning rock in Spanish, was inspired by its crunchy texture and the fact that almonds were often imported from Spain at the time. Almond Roca became widely popular, especially during World War II, when it was shipped to American soldiers overseas. This earned it the nickname “The Candy That Travels,” due to its long shelf life and durable packaging in airtight tins.
‡National New England Clam Chowder Day, a recipe with a cream base, is January 21st. Since there is no official Manhattan Clam Chowder Day (a tomato base), consider February 25th, the generic National Clam Chowder Day, a stand-in.
‡‡ National Butterscotch Brownie Day, one of the names for a blondie, is on May 9th. Here’s the scoop.
‡‡‡National Hot Chocolate Day is on January 31st, and National Cocoa Day is December 13th.
‡‡‡‡ Southern Food Heritage Day is celebrated on October 11th.
‡‡‡‡‡National Fish Taco Day is January 25th, March 21st is National Crunchy Taco Day, March 31st is Día del Taco (in Mexico), and October 4th is National Taco Day. Not to mention Taco Tuesdays.
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