I’m Karen Hochman, a foodie, gourmet food expert, specialty food guru, founder of The Nibble webzine and blog. Welcome to my food adventures, fine food lovers!
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It’s International Feta Day, celebrating Greece’s most famous cheese. Most of us don’t know much about Greek wines, so here are some familiar wines—and beers—that pair beautifully with feta dishes from Greek salad to pizza to chicken, seafood, and beyond. t.ly/wY7hg
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Cheese lovers: It's International Feta Day! Check out 25 feta cheese #recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus wine pairings: t.ly/WW0CO.
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Plan a party to celebrate summer corn, with grilled Mexican street corn (elote), Margaritas, and agua fresca. The how-to: t.ly/Kq2sD.
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It’s National Cupcake Lovers Day. How were #cupcakes invented? Check it out: t.ly/eorHz. How about making boozy cupcakes, using booze-filled pipettes or inverted airline miniatures? t.ly/NMltt
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It’s National Cucumber Day. Celebrate with one of our favorite quaffs: @Empress1908Gin’s Cucumber Lemon Gin. Our review: t.ly/1eFIs. Plus, 9 ways to use cucumbers beyond the “usual,” and the origin of cucumbers: t.ly/dMRVs.
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Another favorite for National Jerky Day is @JeffsFamous (since rebranded as Jeff’s Finest). In addition to 14 beef flavors, there’s “wild” jerky: alligator, bison, elk, python, shark, venison. A fun tasting idea for #FathersDay! In photo: award-winning cranberry-jalapeño.
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It’s National Jerky Day. After years of tasting many brands, one of our favorites is @KraveJerky for its tenderness and flavors. Who first invented jerky? The technique is as old as fire, but “charqui” is the Quechua/Inca word. The scoop: t.ly/xsftF.
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It’s International Falafel Day. Here’s a twist on both falafel and chicken-and-waffles: falafel waffles (it’s fun just saying it). The waffles are made with chickpea batter instead of flour: delicious and nutritious as well as #glutenfree. The #recipe: t.ly/IM_6A.
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Ready for Happy Hour? It’s International Cachaça Day, a Brazilian spirit made from pure cane juice (rum is made from a by-product, molasses). The #recipe for its most famous cocktail, the Caipirinha: t.ly/q4up5. The history of cocktails: t.ly/6pwzg.
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National Peanut Butter recipe #2: No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Grahams from @TasteOfHome. A very easy #recipe: t.ly/rtD0C.
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For National Peanut Butter Cookie Day, an easy recipe from @PeanutButterCo. Plus, who invented peanut butter: t.ly/0v-UI.
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It’s National Egg Roll Day. Here’s how to make “egg roll in a bowl”—all the filling without the wrapper. You save on wrapper carbs and frying calories! The #recipe: t.ly/DnSYC.
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It’s National Iced Tea Day. Why spend money on bottled tea when it’s so easy to brew your own, for single or multiple glasses? t.ly/ZZyb4.
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An idea for National Iced Tea Month: blueberry green tea from @HarneyTea infused with lemongrass, blueberry, and vanilla: t.ly/QFKDg. Hot or iced, the garnishes make it a work of art: blueberries, cornflowers, lavender, mint, and lemongrass stems.
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Get ready for Happy Hour: It's International Dark & Stormy Day, inadvertently named by a British sailor in Bermuda in the early 1900s. He said that the drink looked like “the color of a cloud that no sane person would sail under.” The #recipe: t.ly/HbDVp.
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Beginning Thursday, just in time for #WorldCup2026 and America’s 250th, @BJsRestaurants is launching a Stars & Stripes Pizookie: red, white, and blue atop a warm chocolate chip cookie. Go Pizookies! #IceCream
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It’s World Oceans Day, a reminder to buy only sustainable seafood. Avoid eating endangered species—which are endangered because they’re so popular, like this bluefin tuna. Here’s more about it: t.ly/gthad.
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We’re brewing a batch of papaya berry iced tea from @AdagioTeas. It’s a caffeine-free herbal infusion with tropical fruit flavors that gets its purple color from the butterfly pea flower. t.ly/jhG3u #NationalIcedTeaMonth
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How do you want to celebrate National Chocolate Ice Cream Day? Check out the history of #icecream: t.ly/S0z_Z, and Thomas Jefferson’s recipe: t.ly/w-Wwd.
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Woo hoo: It’s National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. How about a chocolate stout float? The #recipe: t.ly/KMPF5.
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