We have a national Braai day sometime every year. Braai is as much an event as it is a cooking session 
Happy National BBQ Day
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I am really lucky, because I have lots of time to cook, and I do it a lot. I like to cook, and I like to BBQ, and I own both gas and charcoal, so I can choose. Every freakin day is BBQ day here in the burbs, as somebody is outside cooking. Today I will BBQ for shore!
The hardest part of cooking for me is learning to eat less.
The hardest part of cooking for me is learning to eat less.
That sounds awesome, I am enjoying the cooking time that lockdown offers since I would usually cook twice a week at varsity and eat leftovers for a few days.I am really lucky, because I have lots of time to cook, and I do it a lot. I like to cook, and I like to BBQ, and I own both gas and charcoal, so I can choose. Every freakin day is BBQ day here in the burbs, as somebody is outside cooking. Today I will BBQ for shore!
The hardest part of cooking for me is learning to eat less.
Which is why you folks always want to holiday in south France, right?
Are there any British food-centric holidays? Not holidays where people eat, but holidays about the food?
We have lots of them, but they are all unofficial. The congress didn't institute National Donut Day.
(Many do seem to celebrate it though...) It was announced by the National Donut Council, or some such dodgy advertizing enterprise dressed in the US flag.
Maybe you could celebrate Lewis Carroll Day, where the whole country has one huge mad tea party.
(If it doesn't rain....)
I think we are very boring like that. As far as i'm aware we don't have any pure "food" days where there's a celebration for the food itself. Obviously we have celebrations where food is involved like xmas and the traditional xmas dinner, or shrove Tuesday where pancakes are scoffed, easter when chocolate is the thing, but those are foods that are eaten whilst celebrating something else.
And Greece is where we tend to go on holiday, and boy can than those Greeks rustle up some nice scam.
Fresno county is the Mexican food center of the SJV. What can I say about that. Over half the population is hispanic. Lots of farmers came here who were refugees from war and genocide, around the world too.
Armenian, Greek, & Basque food are also big here, but so is Asian. All types too. It's amazing.
All kinds of Chinese, Hmong, Polynesian, Japanese, Thai, Pho, Indonesian, Korean, Mongolian . . .
I'm making myself hungry. We have Syrians and Lebanese and Palentinians too. Lots of people spending their savings, escaping the middle east. Very lucky people, to survive all that and land here.
Lately more wealthy Indian folks are moving here, disappointed to find they are only middle class in America. We have like 3 classes, but they have 12 (!) so don't feel they know where they belong.
But they are doing OK, and well accepted. Indian restaurants are opening. Many Indian doctors have moved here, because of all the nursing homes. Lots of medical clinics opening too.
I've never lived in such a melting pot.
Armenian, Greek, & Basque food are also big here, but so is Asian. All types too. It's amazing.
All kinds of Chinese, Hmong, Polynesian, Japanese, Thai, Pho, Indonesian, Korean, Mongolian . . .
I'm making myself hungry. We have Syrians and Lebanese and Palentinians too. Lots of people spending their savings, escaping the middle east. Very lucky people, to survive all that and land here.
Lately more wealthy Indian folks are moving here, disappointed to find they are only middle class in America. We have like 3 classes, but they have 12 (!) so don't feel they know where they belong.
But they are doing OK, and well accepted. Indian restaurants are opening. Many Indian doctors have moved here, because of all the nursing homes. Lots of medical clinics opening too.
I've never lived in such a melting pot.
