Lover’s Day is April 23 and we’re excited for this ‘holiday’ based on Spain’s equivalent of Valentine’s Day, St. George’s Day (La Diada de Sant Jordi). While Valentine’s Day is pretty much always about and exclusively for couples in a committed relationship, we like to think of Lover’s Day as Valentine’s naughty stepchild with a […]
Chef Silvana Salcido is a baker’s daughter and has been feeding people her entire life. At Barrio Café in Phoenix, AZ, she takes inspiration from regional dishes from places like Oaxaca, the Yucatan and Baja California. She then uses French techniques to create some seriously bad-ass Mexican cuisine. Silvano, courtesy Tabasco®, shares with us her […]
We like to partake in Take Your Daughter to Work Day every April 24. It’s so important to teach our daughters about leadership, responsibility and the workplace and, if we’re being honest, it’s pretty awesome to spend a day one on one with your little lady, don’t you think? That said, Take Your Daughter to […]
According to the National Confectioner’s Association (NCA) April 22 is National Jelly Bean Day. While the history of National Jelly Bean day is unclear, the strong flavors of jelly beans can actually affect your whole body. Your taste receptors, although located mainly in your tongue, can cause sensations throughout your body. In fact, you have […]
What’s not to love about jelly beans? For a quick, sweet bite, they’re fun and flavorful, convenient and available everywhere. Jelly beans are so popular they’ve even traveled to outer space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983. If you’re a lover of jelly beans, you’re in good company. Several famous people have well-known hankerings for […]
UPDATED August 1st, 2016 Jelly Beans have been around since the Civil War. They were the first candy to be sold by weight rather than piece and each year, there are about 16 billion sold for Easter alone. Former President Ronald Reagan believed that you could tell a lot about a person’s character, by how they […]
April 28 is Great Poetry Reading Day. This day is celebrated to honor great poetry and the incredible poets who contribute to the genre. From Maya Angelou to Shel Silverstein, and who could forget Robert Frost, poems put our desperate, uncertain, scrambled emotions into fluid, beauty phrases that touch others and help us to move […]
This easy and affordable ceviche by Juan Mondragon, courtesy of Tabasco®, skips the fish and instead uses prickly pear cactus as its base. Born in Mexico City, Mondragon’s passion to create delicious and healthy meals evolved into Juan’s Restaurante, frequented by Hollywood stars. And today Juan is referred to by food critics and journalists alike as […]
UPDATED August 1st, 2016 Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, is a former Google executive who now basically runs the show at Facebook. In 2011, she was fifth on Forbes’s list of the most powerful women in the world and she’s spreading her empowerment with her message to […]