• Diwali

    Diwali

    The Festival of Lights Diwali, the Festival of Lights, arrives as a burst of color and warmth in the long nights of autumn. The Sanskrit word dipavali means “row of […]

  • National Liquor Day

    National Liquor Day

    From Alembics to Old Fashioneds Picture a small still bubbling over a coal fire, copper coils dripping clear liquid into an earthenware jug. Before liquor became a fixture at cocktail […]

  • World Food Day

    World Food Day

    A Global Table of Awareness World Food Day may fall on a single date, but its reach spans the globe and touches issues as diverse as soil health, childhood hunger, […]

  • 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, […]