Start your tequila drinking engines: Sunday February 22nd is National Margarita Day

Blueberry basil margarita

Start your tequila-drinking engines! This weekend is National Margarita Day, so get your salt, limes, and lips ready! I love a good “food holiday” (proof here; here; and here, in case you don’t believe me), especially when it  involves wine and/or cocktails. So, with the desire of fully “getting into the spirit” of this, well, spirit-fueled…

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It’s a Food Holiday: National Drink Wine Day (Bonus: It’s Time for Lent)

Chile Obama Latin America

Say au revoir to the indulgent revelry of Mardi Gras and Fat Tuesday, and hello to the tradition of Lent, which begins today, Ash Wednesday. For the next 40 days, people everywhere will enter into a season of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer that ends with Easter in April. But  joy of joys, guess what? It just…

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