There are FIVE (5!) fun and important things we’re celebrating today so let’s get started:
1. Hot Dog Day falls on the 3rd Wed in July each year….
No more pity parties when we gluten-challenged folks get famished on the fly — and wanna partake in classic NYC food traditions too…Frankie’s has a g-free bun! 🙌🏾🙌🏾…
Check out and enjoy this mini vid I made for National Hot Dog Day once upon a time and have a Happy one !
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2. FOR CORN FRITTERS DAY TODY: (visually) enjoy these corn & okra fritters i fried up inspired by a recipe in “The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks”, co-authored by Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock.
3. And For FRESH SPINACH Day !…
I just LOVE a deliciously prepared leafy green side (or main!) dish … and sauteed spinach is at the top of that love list…
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4. HOORAY for “CHERRY DAY”!
July 16th, 2025, is ALSO National Cherry Day - yes an annual celebration dedicated to this versatile antioxidant small seed fruit… AND cosmically Cherry (with the “ch” pronounced like “sh”) is the childhood nickame of my amazing sister Aunt Cheryl Hopkins aka “Cha Hockey” (yes the Ch is like a Sh here too ;) … who left this world way too soon. I celebrate her TODAY and EVERY DAY!….
Last summer I learned that Cheryl shared/still shares a birth day with the amazing Ida B. Wells! Almost to the exact year a century apart! … I was not at all surprised to learn this fascinating fact and here's why:
Not unlike our collective and iconic elder Ida, Cheryl was a natural born activist and advocate for equality, equity, civill rights and justice. She was and continues to be a beacon for me having shed so much light and having shared so many books and resources on the truth of American History, essential African American history and intel, the wisdom of the ancient Africanic culture(s) from which we originate... I am forever grateful for her profound influence on me as a human being and on the nature of the very work i do…
On this special day, July 16th, I am comforted by the belief and evidence of sorts that her positive energy lives on in alignment with our ever-present Ancestors, with their timeless boundless leadership…
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