Fall is persimmon season, so that naturally makes October the perfect time to have National Persimmon Month! The long and Fruity Origins of Persimmons Persimmons grow in temperate to tropical climates. Cultivation of Diospyros kaki began thousands of years ago in China and about 1,300 years ago in Japan. It seems to be the only […]
Amid the constant flow of new microtrends and TikTok-viral recipes, only a few food trends tend to stick around for a while — but one sweet, pistachio-topped treat aims to be an exception. As Food & Wine reports, Dubai-style Ghirardelli truffles just landed on shelves, and this milk chocolate-covered nest of toasted kataifi and pistachio […]
A pressed luncheon meat with its own holiday? Baloney! Bologna, colloquially pronounced “baloney,” is a seasoned tube-shaped meat found most often sliced and served between pieces of bread. But despite its humble reputation, a slice of bologna is so much more than a flat hot dog. Bologna is loosely patterned off mortadella, a large, smoked sausage […]
World Polio Day – celebrated annually on October 24 – was established by Rotary International to commemorate the birth of Jonas Salk, who led the first team to develop a vaccine against poliomyelitis. Use of this inactivated poliovirus vaccine and subsequent widespread use of the oral poliovirus vaccine developed by Albert Sabin led to establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in […]
We love our pets like family, and we want them to live long, healthy lives. October is National Pet Wellness Month, and there is no better time to re-evaluate your furry friend’s health and lifestyles. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) launched National Pet Wellness Month in 2004 to educate pet parents on the importance […]
As the middle month of autumn, October is a great time to attend to both indoor and outdoor home maintenance tasks. During the changing seasons, the nights are longer and cooler, the days shorter. There’s a chill in the air. Time to winterize your cooler and tune up your heating system for the coming colder […]
This week, OpenAI introduced its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. As AP News reports, making its popular AI chatbot a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world’s most valuable startup, to pull in […]
As many as a half a dozen storms are expected to roll onshore in the northwestern United States through next week, bringing periods of drenching rain to lower elevations and accumulating snow to the higher terrain. One of the more potent storms, forecast to arrive Thursday night into Friday, will tap into a firehose of […]
Bombas, the comfort focused sock and apparel brand with a mission, known for its “one purchased = one donated” model for socks, underwear, and t-shirts, is opening its first flagship store in NYC. And that’s just the beginning. The brand will follow the NYC opening with store launches in Boca Raton and Austin before the […]
National Pickled Peppers Month is observed every October. That’s right, a whole month dedicated to chowing down on these tasty snacks that are actually pretty healthy for you! Health Benefits of Pickled Peppers Since an ounce of pickled peppers is only 7 calories, you can eat these bad boys until you’re blue in the face […]