January Food Holidays • The Good Hearted Woman

January Food Holidays feature cozy, comforting foods - everything from oatmeal to spaghetti - to keep you warm through the long, cold month. (Complete calendar, with recipe suggestions.)

9-panel collage showing images of food and recipes from January Food Holidays calendar.

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Month-long Food Holidays
Weekly Food Holidays
Daily Food Holidays
Seasonal Recipes: January
What's in Season?
Food Holidays Monthly Calendars

Month-long Food Holidays

Bread Machine Baking Month
National Candy Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Meat Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Soup Month
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
National Apple & Apricot Month
National Artichoke & Asparagus Month
National Tubers & Dried Fruit Month
Veganuary (UK)

Weekly Food Holidays

1^st Week
- National Mocktail Week
3^rd Week
- National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
Final Week
- National Farmhouse Breakfast Week
- National Meat Week (begins the last Sunday)

Daily Food Holidays

January 1: Apple Gifting Day
January 2: National Cream Puff Day
January 2: National Buffet Day
January 3: National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
January 3: Fruitcake Toss Day
January 4: National Spaghetti Day
January 5: National Whipped Cream Day
January 6: Apple Tree Day
January 6: National Bean Day
January 6: Epiphany (make an Epiphany cake)
January 6: National Shortbread Day (UK; worldwide)
January 7: National Tempura Day

Spaghetti tossed in sauce, with additional sauce on top for National Spaghetti Day (Jan 4).

January 8: English Toffee Day
January 9: National Apricot Day
January 9: National Cassoulet Day
January 10: Bittersweet Chocolate Day
January 11: National Milk Day
January 11: Hot Toddy Day
January 12: Curried Chicken Day
January 12: National Hot Tea Day
January 12: National Marzipan Day
January 13: National Peach Melba Day
January 14: National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

January 15: Strawberry Ice Cream Day
January 15: National Booch (Kombucha) Day
January 15: National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
January 16: National Fig Newton Day
January 16: National Quinoa Day
January 16: International Hot & Spicy Food Day
January 17: Hot Buttered Rum Day
January 18: Peking Duck Day
January 19: National Popcorn Day
January 20: National Buttercrunch Day
January 20: National Cheese Lover’s Day
January 20: National Granola Bar Day
January 20: National Coffee Break Day
January 20: National Soup Swap Day
January 21: New England Clam Chowder Day

January 22: National Blonde Brownie Day
January 23: National Pie Day
January 23: International Sticky Toffee Pudding Day
January 23: National Rhubarb Pie Day
January 24: National Peanut Butter Day
January 24: National Lobster Thermador Day
January 25: National Irish Coffee Day
January 25: National Fish Taco Day
January 26: National Pistachio Day
January 26: National Peanut Brittle Day
January 27: National Chocolate Cake Day
January 28: National Blueberry Pancake Day

January 29: National Corn Chip Day
January 30: National Croissant Day
January 31: National Eat Brussels Sprouts Day
January 31: National Hot Chocolate Day

Seasonal Recipes: January

And now, let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.
_{Rainer Maria Rilke}

What's in Season?

We make our home in the US Pacific Northwest. Your local seasonal crops may be different than those listed here, depending on your location. In the US, click to check what's in season in your state.

January harvests in the Pacific Northwest include apples, beets, chard, fennel, garlic, kale, turnips, potatoes, leeks, mushrooms, onions, potatoes, rapini, rutabagas, sprouts, turnips, and winter squash.