National Pie Day “If I’m going to have something rich and yummy, I’m not reaching for prepackaged brownies. I’m going to make a pie from scratch.” - Marisa Miller

National Fritters Day “Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.” - Gregory Maguire

National Apple Pie Day “The golden rod is yellow, the corn is turning brown, the trees in apple orchards with fruit are bending down.” - Helen Hunt Jackson

National Cookie Day “I love to make Christmas cookies, chocolate chip peanut butter cookies, pecan pies, coconut macaroons, fruitcakes.” - Divine

National Comfort Food Day “My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.” - Katie Lee

National Gazpacho Day “I had my first bowl of gazpacho when I was fifteen in Spain, and the impression it made was a lasting one.” - Gwyneth Paltrow

National Cotton Candy Day “Cotton candy is the perfect snack for when I’m in the mood to eat dry, scratchy fabric.” - Demetri Martin

National Chocolate Brownie Day “I’ve learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

National Pastry Day “I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. Its precise, and you don’t have to kill anything.” - Johnny Iuzzini

National Lager Day “A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.” - Sylvia Ashton-Warner

National Noodle Ring Day “Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.” - Julia Child

National Gingerbread House Day “I thought we could make Gingerbread houses and eat cookie dough and go ice skating and maybe even hold hands.” - Buddy the Elf

National Cream Cheese Frosting Day “When I have red velvet cake, I normally have cream cheese icing.” - Adriano Zumbo

National Roast Chestnuts Day “There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling winter stories – ghost stories, or more shame for us – round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.” - Charles Dickens

National Cupcake Day “What can I say? I’ve never met a cupcake I didn’t want to get to know better.” - Jasinda Wilder

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day ‘When no one understands you, chocolate is there.” - Daniel Worona

National Maple Syrup Day “In Vermont, there is maple syrup in it- it doesn’t matter what it is. Cake, ice cream, coffee, soup, mustard, concrete.” - Maureen Johnson

National Roast Suckling Pig Day “Long live sausage! Long live salami! Long live pork, Coppa, and pancetta!” - Matteo Salvini

National Hard Candy Day “I have to confess I can’t have the holiday season without “Hard Candy Christmas”. For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.” - Hank Stuever

National Sangria Day “Wine is bottled poetry.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

National Kiwi Fruit Day “Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy Kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.” - Erma Bombeck

National Date Nut Bread Day “When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

National Pfeffernusse Day “I’ll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I’ll still eat the one cookie...sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.” - Kate Winslet

National Candy Cane Day “Christmas is like candy. It slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

National Fruit Cake Day “The ultimate in longevity is the Christmas fruitcake. It is a cake made during the holidays with fruits that make it heavier than the stove it is cooked in.” - Erma Bombeck

National Chocolate Candy Day “I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.” - Freddie Highmore

National Pepper Pot Day “Stew’s so comforting on a rainy day.” - Dodie Smith

National Bacon Day “Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” - Doug Larson