May 16 – National Barbecue Day

National Barbecue Day

Food Facts on Barbecue

The most popular holidays for barbecuing are, July 4th, Memorial Day, and Labor Day.
The most popular foods for cooking on the grill are, burgers, steak, seafood, hotdogs, and chicken.
The most popular flavors of barbecue sauce are hickory, followed by mesquite, honey, and then spicy-hot.
Competition barbecuing is one of the hottest hobbies in the country with hundreds of cook-offs held throughout all 50 states.
Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer of Pennsylvania patented a design for charcoal briquettes in 1897.

May 15 – National Chocolate Chip Day

National Chocolate Chip Day

Food Facts on Chocolate Chips

Chocolate chips are tiny teardrop-shaped morsels of chocolate.
American consumer over 7 billion chocolate chips annually.
Chocolate chips can be used in brownies, pancakes, muffins or cookies or just scarf them by the handful straight from the bag.
Today, 25% of all the cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip!
In the 1930′s the Chocolate chip cookie was discovered, by Ruth Graves Wakefield at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
The term “Toll House” is legally a generic word for chocolate chip cookie.

National Buttermilk Biscuit Day

Food Facts on Buttermilk Biscuits

Buttermilk biscuits are very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda.
Buttermilk Biscuits are called quick breads because they do not need time to rise before baking.
Buttermilk biscuits can be served as a side dish or as a meal. They are often eaten with butter and a sweet condiment or popular with butter and gravy.
The pre-shaped ready-to-bake biscuits you see in supermarkets in round cardboard cans were patented in 1931.
Buttermilk biscuits care very similar to British scones.