National Creme Brulee Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.” --Rashida Jones

National Hamburger Day “I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.” ---Bobby Flay

National Chicken Wing Day “I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.” ---Boo Weekley

National Cheesecake Day “My mother made wonderful cheesecake. She loved cheesecake. She ate it every day of her life.” ---June Carter Cash

Kids entering 6th Grade this fall through those entering as Seniors were given challenges at the beginning of Summer. Enter a Book Merge Photo, Book Spine Poem and/or a Recycle Book Art piece.  Prizes:  1st Place $15, 2nd Place $10, and 3rd Place $5. Winners will be announced today!

National Avocado Day “I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.” ---Barbara Streisand

National Raspberry Pie Day “The world was her oyster; except she didn’t care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries.” ---Kevin J. Anderson

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day “Ice cream is good for the soul.” ---Adrienne Posey

National Watermelon Day “When one has tasted watermelon, he knows what the angels eat.” ---Mark Twain

National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day “In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.” ---Salman Rushdie

National Couscous Day “One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.” ---Jonas Carpignano

National Root Beer Float Day “...root beer floats are the stuff that toasts are made of.” ---Sandra D. Bricker, If the Shoe Fits

National Raspberries in Cream Day “Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.” ---E.W. Howe

National Frozen Custard Day “You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.” ---Alexander Pope

National Book Lovers Day “Once you learn to read you will be forever free.” ---Frederick Douglass

National S’mores Day “You’re a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious.” ---Janet Evanovich

National Panini Day “I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there’s so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.” ---Adrianne Palicki

National Julienne Fries Day “French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French Fries. That and caviar.” ---Cameron Diaz

National Filet Mignon “If wishes were filet mignon, we’d always eat well at dinner.” ---Dean Koontz

National Pineapple Juice Day “Somebody’s been putting pineapple juice in my pineapple juice!” ---W. C. Field

National Lemon Meringue Pie Day “She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.” ---A.M. Homes

National Bratwurst Day “A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste, but you don’t want to see how it was made.” ---Harlan Coben

National Eggplant Day “Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.” ---Gabriel Garcia Marquez

National Ice Cream Pie Day “I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I’m on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!”…

National Potato Day “I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: It is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.” ---Laurie Colwin

National Bacon Lovers Day “I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.” ---David Lynch

National Sweet Tea Day “Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.” ---Henry Fielding

National Eat a Peach Day “An apple is an excellent thing—until you have tried a peach.” ---George du Maurier

National Sponge Cake Day “You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge cake is to me.” ---Jane Austen

National Waffle Day “You should eat a waffle! You can’t b sad if you eat a waffle!” ---Lauren Myracle

National Green Goddess Day “From salad dressing all blessings flow.” ---Paul Newman

National Cherry Popsicle Day “I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, ‘I don’t know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?’ You know, who knows?” ---Oscar Nunez

National Banana Lovers Day “Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.” ---Daphne Guinness

National Cherry Turnover Day “A cherry pie isn’t a failure just because you eat it all. It's perfect for what it is, and then it’s gone.” ---Emery Lord

National Lemon Juice Day “It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.” ---Louise Hay

National Toasted Marshmallow Day “Having a campfire and roasted marshmallows, to me that sounds like Heaven.” ---Randy Orton

National Eat Outside Day “Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.” ---Fennel Hudson

National Tofu Day “The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.” ---Sylvia Boorstein

National Grits for Breakfast Day “That’s all a grit is a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.” ---Kathryn Stockett, The Help

National Baby Back Ribs “Barbecue is a dance of flavors, a symphony of smoke and spice.” --Johnny Trigg

National Macadamia Nut Day “Macadamia nuts earn a distinction above other nuts and seeds because of their superior nutritional value.” ---Mark Sisson

National Cheese Pizza Day “Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.” ---Anna Quindlen

National Coffee Ice Cream Day “My favorite ice cream is Haugen-Dazs coffee.” ---Rob Kardashian