November 5, 2015 – NATIONAL LOVE YOUR RED HAIR DAY – NATIONAL MEN MAKE DINNER DAY – NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY

                                NATIONAL LOVE YOUR RED HAIR DAY

National Love Your Red Hair Day is celebrated annually on November 5. This is a day to celebrate the beauty of those gorgeous red tresses.

Many redheads have felt like outcasts for having red hair. National Love Your Red Hair Day is designed to empower redheads to feel confident, look amazing and rock their beauty. Red hair is more than a color, it’s a lifestyle.
How to be a Redhead brand created Rock it Like a Redhead, a series of beauty events, and is finishing a 5 city national tour in New York City on November 5th. It is a red carpet event with live performances, beauty and fashion stations with local experts, fashion shows demonstrating local boutiques and more. Each year on November 5th, redheads can celebrate their locks to the fullest.
OBSERVE
Celebrate your beauty by posting photos of your red hair on social media using #LoveYourRedHairDay.
HISTORY

National Love Your Red Hair Day was submitted by Adrienne & Stephanie Vendetti, co-founders of How to be a Redhead in August of 2015. The Registrar at National Day Calendar declared it will be celebrated annually on November 5.

National Men Make Dinner Day – First Thursday in November

NATIONAL MEN MAKE DINNER DAY

National Men Make Dinner Day is observed annually on first Thursday in November.  This is the day for men to take charge in the kitchen and cook for their loved ones.

There are some men that like to cook and do so on a regular basis and to those men, kuddos to you. You can submit your favorite recipe on the National Men Make Dinner website. 
This day was created for the men who do not know their way around the kitchen and are not familiar with cooking appliances, as well as for the women in their lives who need a break.
Men need to be aware that there are a list of rules that must be followed, some of which include:

• The main meal must include a minimum of 4 ingredients and require at least one cooking utensil other than a fork.
• Man goes shopping for all necessary ingredients.
• Must clean up as you go.
• Aprons are optional.

For a list of complete rules, see the above mentioned website.
OBSERVE
Have the men in the house prepare a meal and use #MenMakeDinnerDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
National Men Make Dinner Day was created by Sandy Sharkey in 2001.

 

National Doughnut Day – November 5

NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY

November 5 is one of two National Doughnut Days that are celebrated by doughnut lovers across the nation.  The first Friday in June is the other day that doughnuts are the star of the show.
For more information on National Doughnut Day when celebrated in June, click here.
The history of the doughnut is disputed:

•  There is one theory that suggests they were invented in North America by Dutch settlers who were responsible for popularizing other American desserts including cookies, apple pie, cream pie and cobbler.
• An American, Hanson Gregory, claimed to have invented the ring shaped doughnut in 1847 while on board a lime-trading ship at the age of 16.  He claimed to have punched a hole in the center of dough with the ship’s tin pepper box and later taught the technique to his mother.
• Anthropologist Paul R Mullins states that the first cookbook mentioning doughnuts was an 1803 English volume which included doughnuts in an appendix of American recipes.
• An 1808 short story describing a spread of “fire-cakes and dough-nuts” is the earliest known recorded usage of the term doughnut.
• A more commonly cited first written recording of the term is Washington Irving’s reference to doughnuts in 1809 in his History of New York.  He described balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat and called doughnuts.  Today, these nuts of fried dough are called doughnut holes.

“Donut”

• Peck’s Bad Boy and his Pa, written by George W. Peck and published in 1900, contained the first known printed use of donut in which a character is quoted as saying, “Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.”
• It is said that the alternative spelling, donut, was invented when the New York-based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners that they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

Doughnut is the more traditional spelling however, both doughnut and the shortened form, donut, are pervasive in American English.
A few of the many different types of doughnuts across the United States include: frosted, glazed, powdered, sugared, chocolate, Boston cream, coconut, sour cream, cinnamon, jelly, cider and potato.
OBSERVE
Stop at your favorite doughnut shop and indulge in a fresh doughnut or try making your own with one of the following recipes:
Best Baked Doughnuts Ever
Easy Drop Doughnuts
Easy DoughnutsChocolate Doughnuts
Use #NationalDoughnutDay to post on social media.