• 1-31^ST VEGANUARYVeganuary is an annual challenge run by a UK nonprofit organisation that promotes and educates about veganism by encouraging people to follow a vegan lifestyle for the month of January.

• 1-31^ST DRY JANUARYDry January invites people to detox from alcohol following a boozy festive period.

• 1-31^ST GINUARYGinuary is a celebration of gin during the month of January. Ginuary is the opposite of Dry January. Rather than a campaign for people to stop drinking, Ginuary provides reasons to drink gin.

• 1-31^ST NATIONAL SLOW COOKING MONTHAn inventor named Irving Nachumsohn received the patent for the device that became the Crock-Pot on Jan. 23, 1940. Nachumsohn, who went by the surname Naxon, invented the slow cooker to cook cholent, a traditional stew eaten by Jews in eastern Europe on the Sabbath.

• 23^RD INTERNATIONAL STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING DAYCartmel is the home of Sticky Toffee. The Cartmel Village shop started baking in the shop’s back kitchen and selling it in the front 20 years ago.

Source: The Foodie Calendar