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Is it May yet? Happy asparagus month! Happy hamburger month! Happy barbecue month! May food holidays are here!
There are thousands of food holidays. We found more than 90 of them just for May. Most of them are at best an excuse for the lovers of a certain dish, ingredient, or drink to celebrate. And at worst, they’re a barely disguised marketing gimmick (we’re looking at you I Love Resee’s Day!).
Either way, smart food writers who create imaginative content around holidays can captivate audiences. Marketing savvy food writers can also earn sponsorships for creating content around holiday-themed ingredients and products.
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You’ll find a day-by-day calendar below. It lists all of the day-long holidays.
Download our May Food Holidays 2021 guide for a full description of each of the monthly, weekly, and daily holidays along with some food trivia, food related quotes, and the best hashtags to use to get your writing noticed.
Use the holidays as inspiration for content.
If you’re a food history writer, holidays are a gold mine for you. Go, dig up the history of a company (both Coke and Resee’s Peanut Butter Cups have holidays in May), or explore the origins of a dish. Some dishes in the May holidays date back to medieval times; tea dates back 5,000 years.
If you’re a recipe writer, challenge yourself to come up with a creative, unique approach to the holidays. The lazy way to craft content around a holiday, say asparagus day, is to post a round-up of five previously published basic recipes. Ugh! Boo! Bah!
Take it up a notch. Create a brand new asparagus soup, include a centuries-old Middle-Eastern version of roasted asparagus, a barbecued side-dish, a cold salad, and a breakfast smoothie. That’s an inspired round-up.
May is National Barbecue Month. Instead of one recipe or round-up, make barbecue your theme for the month. Each week, explore the particulars of a regional barbecue tradition. One week, detail Texas barbecue. The next week, survey South Carolina, then Kansas City, and so on.
Or compare the various barbecue sauces – red, black, and white, sweet, spicy, and tangy.
Here are the daily holidays.
Happy writing!
Be sure to read our related post, June Food Holidays.
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