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Foodimentary: Celebrating 365 Food Holidays with Classic Recipes by John-Bryan Hopkins, Heidi Schweigert, Jordan Sundberg, Melanie Chadwick, Salli Swindell
3.0

A nicely designed book with little historical blurbs for each food day of the calendar year. I found it oddly sectioned - it starts with the first of March in "Spring" and ends the book with February 29th on Frog Legs Day in "Winter".

There's three to five recipes per month opposite the relevant "day" page, but they were disappointingly simple or boring (ex: "homemade hamburgers" next to September 18th, Cheeseburger Day, with nothing revelatory about the recipe except for an absurd amount of brown sugar in it). Why no recipe for Orange Blossom Day (June 27) or Penuche Day (July 22)? Not the choices I would have made.