Pudding Season begins on October first. Start it off with this delicious butterscotch pudding recipe from chocolatier Michael Recchiuti. Photo by Duard van der Westhuizen | IST.
Last Updated June 2022
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National Food Holidays: October
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As the days get shorter, you won’t even notice...you’ll be too busy planning parties to celebrate these momentous occasions. Some enable entire month-long festivities:
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If you’re only looking for a week-long festivity, then select from:
Day-long festivities:
- National Dessert Day, the second Thursday of the month
- Global Champagne Day, the fourth Friday of the month
The rest of October’s line-up includes:
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October 4 is National Taco Day. Make these delicious braised beef tacos with mole sauce. Photo courtesy McCormick. |
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October 18 is National Pasta Day, Treat yourself to some Fettuccine Alfredo. Here’s the recipe. |
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October 10th is National Angel Food Cake Day. Here’s a recipe for dark chocolate cupcakes. |
* January 22nd is National Southern Food Day.
† May 5th is National Hoagie Day. November 4th is National Submarine Sandwich Day. And someone decided that we needed a National Eat A Hoagie Day on September 14th and Submarine-Hoagie-Grinder Day on October 9th.
‡National Eat Your Noodles Day is March 11th.
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