• National Anisette Day

    The Origins of Anisette National Anisette Day celebrates a liqueur whose flavor has traveled across civilizations for thousands of years. Anisette is built around anise, a seed prized since antiquity […]

  • National Mojito Day

    National Mojito Day

    The Origins of the Mojito National Mojito Day celebrates a cocktail that is inseparable from Cuban history, tropical agriculture and the global story of rum. The mojito’s roots stretch back […]

  • Hanukkah

    A Festival of Light Born from Courage and Restoration Hanukkah returns each year as a warm, flickering beacon against the deepening nights of winter. Its story reaches back to the second century BCE, when the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes outlawed Jewish practice and desecrated the Second Temple in Jerusalem. In response, a small group […]

  • Super Saturday

    The Final Sprint of the Holiday Shopping Season Super Saturday — sometimes called Panic Saturday — is the last Saturday before Christmas, a day when millions of shoppers flood stores and websites to complete their gift lists. Falling this year on December 20, it stands as one of the busiest retail days of the season, […]