If you know anything about Chinese New Year, you know that it's one of the biggest celebrations of the year, filled with tons of food, traditional music, parades, and of course, fireworks. A fifteen day-long celebration, Chinese New Year honors the first day on the lunar calendar, and begins on the new moon. This year [...]
Category Archive — Uncategorized
Celebrate This: Festivus for the Rest of Us
A curmudgeon's holiday to say the least, Festivus is a day of rebellion and defiance against the commerciality of the holiday season. This nonsecular holiday was invented by a weary father who had grown sick and tired of the muss and fuss of Christmas, and decided to institute his very own anti-holiday. The popular sitcom Seinfeld brought [...]
Celebrate This: National Bouillabaisse Day
From the moment I woke up, and lifted my head off of the pillow, I knew there was something fishy about Bouillabaisse Day. What!? You don't know what Bouillabaisse is? Oh you are so passé! Just kidding! It wasn't until I set out to round up a few ideas for my daily Celebrate This post that I [...]
Celebrate This: National Cocoa Day
When the heat bill burns a hole in your wallet, opt for a cheaper, tastier alternative: a piping hot cup 'o cocoa. Nothing quite warms you up and settles the nerves like hot cocoa, and believe you me, 'tis the season for anxiety. Before you embark on a days worth of shopping, wrapping, baking or [...]
Celebrate This: Poinsettia Day
Poinsettias are mysterious little plants—all year they're practically invisible, unseen in flower shops and grocery stories, until about three weeks before Christmas and BAM! They're sprouting up everywhere! These festive flowers are actually native of Mexico and Central America, which explains why you might be hard pressed to find one any other time of year. [...]
Celebrate This: National Christmas Card Day
Who doesn't love receiving Christmas cards? And sending them! When else are you suppose brag about your success and the outcome of your year as a mother, husband, sister, son? Christmas cards come but once a year, so it's important to send them, and send 'em early. Here are some crafty card tutorials from around [...]
Celebrate This: National Brownie Day
Brownies are delicate desserts whose rich, chocolaty taste, despite any claims made on boxes, is never instant even if their mix is of the pre-packaged variety. A good homemade brownie is hard to find and even harder to achieve without a little patience, and in my experience bad brownies transform their tasters into a gourmet [...]
Celebrate This: National Cotton Candy Day
When I think of cotton candy, I think of the excitement, chaos, and larger than life attitude offered by circuses, fairs and amusement parks. Part sugar rush, part nostalgia, cotton candy makes any event instantly more fun. Toss a ball of pastel candy fluff atop a sugar cupcake for a sweet treat that oozes whimsy or [...]
Celebrate This: National Fritters Day
Of all the food-related holidays out there none tugs at my heart strings quite like National Fritters Day. Although I had never heard of the holiday before setting out to do research for this blog, I have fond memories of the crispy little nuggets and their abilities to transform a rainy afternoon into somewhat of [...]
Celebrate This: National Pie Day
I knew this day would come when I was first asked to write the daily Celebrate This blog, and never did I imagine it would be such a bittersweet occasion. National Pie Day is obviously the food writer's Christmas, that and well, Christmas, but it comes with the burden of settling on just a few [...]
