January 16 - John Carpenter

Happy 72nd Birthday, John Carpenter! Born today in 1948 as John Howard Carpenter, this American keyboardist, musician, composer, editor, screenwriter, producer and film director has worked with various movie genres. 

Aside from this, Carpenter is also associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. 

He was also known as Frank Armitage, John T. Chance, Rip Haight, Martin Quatermass, The Horror Master and The Master of Horror. 

Carpenter has been active from 1969–present. 

#borntodirect 

@TheHorrorMaster 

January 15 - National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

Happy National Strawberry Ice Cream Day! Each year on January 15th, today celebrates one of the choicest flavors of ice cream. However, all flavors of ice cream are recognized on July 1st.

  

Strawberry ice cream is made by blending either strawberries or strawberry flavoring with eggs, cream, vanilla, and sugar. Food coloring is often used to give it the pink or light red hue.

In 1813 during 4th U.S. President James Madison’s second inauguration, strawberry ice cream was served. It’s also one of the three flavors found in Neapolitan ice cream, along with vanilla and chocolate. Other variations of strawberry ice cream include strawberry cheesecake ice cream and strawberry ripple ice cream.

  

HOW TO OBSERVE

Holidays are best celebrated with someone else, so be sure to grab a bowl or two. Invite someone to join you while you enjoy a dish of strawberry ice cream as well.  

Strawberries tend to remind us of summer, so imagine the things you’ll do when the days are warmer. National Day Calendar® has even provided a few recipes to make and share with the links below: 

Easy Celebration Ice Cream Cake

https://www.myfoodandfamily.com/recipe/075140/easy-ice-cream-cake-hot-fudge 

Yummy Strawberry Shake

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20506/yummy-strawberry-shake/ 

Strawberry Ice Cream Pie 

https://www.cooks.com/recipe/u07a03m2/strawberry-ice-cream-pie.html

Use #StrawberryIceCreamDay to post on social media.

HISTORY

National Day Calendar® continues to pursue the origins of this frozen food holiday. While they do, they promise that there will be more ice cream days to celebrate in the days to come. 

And in between, there will be cake days...and donut days, too. Also, don’t forget the cookie days that they will most certainly sandwich their ice cream between. 

#StrawberryIceCreamDay 

@nichecinema 

January 15 - National Bagel Day

Happy National Bagel Day! On January 15th, don’t forget to pick your favorite schmear, too. Make it for breakfast, lunch, or snack, or all of the above!

This kosher carbohydrate brings complex flavors to the deli and sandwich bar. In the United States, we love our crunch-on-the-outside-chewy-on-the-inside bread. They’re a staple in our freezers and as a winter pick-me-up.

Bagel History

Polish-Jewish immigrants introduced the bagel to the United States. Throughout New York City and the surrounding boroughs, they grew thriving businesses.

  

Of course, it didn’t take long for the bakers to organize. In 1907, they created the International Beigel Bakers’ Union. For decades, Bagel Bakers Local 338 held contracts with nearly all bagel bakeries in and around the city for its workers.

Until the 1960s, bakeries made bagels by hand. Then Canadian-born American inventor and entrepreneur Daniel Thompson invented the bagel maker, and along came a heated debate of man versus the machine.

  

Thereafter, the question of the better bagel dangled before customers. Was it the handcrafted bagel or the manufactured bagel?

The bagel became more common throughout North America during the last quarter of the 20th century. 

Credit for the bagels’ spread across the country goes in part to the efforts of Jewish bagel baker Harry Lender (originally from Chelm, Poland), his son, American businessman and entrepreneur Murray Lender, and American entrepreneur Florence Sender. 

It was their pioneering efforts that eventually led to automated production and distribution of frozen bagels in the 1960s. Murray had also invented pre-slicing the bagel.

HOW TO OBSERVE

Have your favorite bagel combinations. Invite friends to get a schmear or two with you. feel free to try new combinations. Do you like yours toasted or not? Breakfast bagels, pizza bagels, cinnamon bagels, they all sound so delicious right now. Which one will you choose? 

Brush up on the bagel’s history in the United States. It’s a vibrant and enduring one. Use #NationalBagelDay to share your favorites and give your favorite bagel shop a shoutout as well! 

HISTORY

Once the bagel shared a day with lox, but no longer. As of 2020, the bagel branched out on its own to celebrate all kinds of bagels. 

What is your favorite bagel? 

#NationalBagelDay 

@LendersBagel 

@panerabread 
@nichecinema