While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

When fresh fruit comes along, you must pick it. May 20 is National Strawberry Picking Day!

Nothing says springtime like fresh fruit, and there’s nothing quite as satisfying as picking your own. This time of year fruit farms across the country open their gates to let the general public help themselves to their latest crops.

Picking your own fruit isn’t only a fun outing with family or friends; it’s also an opportunity to meet and support local farmers. You get a better sense of how the food you enjoy is cultivated, and smaller farms often use more sustainable growing practices.
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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Toss your hands in the air. May is National Salad Month!

Salads often get a bad rap for being too healthy or boring. While they might be the former, they definitely do not need to be the latter. Salads are actually a great way to use up leftovers and can make a balanced meal that will leave you feeling full and satisfied.

Like any meal, salads should be balanced. There should be different flavors, textures and colors. Nuts, berries, cheeses, and herbs can all help turn ‘rabbit food’ into a meal you’ll actually enjoy.

Here are some tips for shaking up the common salad:
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"Crowd control" took on a whole new meaning last night as a room full of partygoers in San Francisco were given power over a cocktail-making robot controlled by their smartphones.

Attendees at the closing party for the Google I/O Conference were invited to send a drink recipe via a smartphone app to the Makr Shakr, a three-armed robot designed especially for the show. They could then interact with attendees of similar taste to collaboratively design their perfect drink via social media.

MIT's Senseable City Lab wanted to see what would happen when you let a mass of people take control of an industrial manufacturing machine.

Read the full story: Robotic bartender creates crowd-sourced cocktails via a smartphone app

While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

How shell we celebrate? May 16 is National Coquilles St. Jacques Day!

For those who need to brush off the ol' French translation books, today we’re celebrating scallops.

Coquilles St. Jacques, or scallops St. James, is a classic French preparation of the soft, mildly sweet mollusks. It’s named for - you guessed it - St. James, who is reputedly buried in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
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Looks like Mc Donalds' McRib won't be the only pressed pork patty in town.

Burger King is about to offer up some competition. The fire-grilled burger-maker unveiled its summer BBQ menu on Wednesday, which includes the Rib Sandwich along with 12 other items.

The menu, also featuring a Memphis BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich and a Carolina BBQ Tendercrisp Sandiwch, will debut on May 21.

While a Burger King publicist wouldn't confirm if this menu is intended to lure customers away from the McDonald's McRib, the Burger King rib sandwich does bear a BBQ-themed resemblance.

Read - Burger King's answer to the McRib

Previously:
McDonald's got its start as a barbecue restaurant
Taking a ribbing – testing out McDonald's cult sandwich

While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Chips ahoy! May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

These tiny teardrop-shaped morsels will melt away your Wednesday woes.

Celebrate today's holiday with this scrumptious recipe from iReporter Cynthia Falardeau's grandmother.
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The agitated sandwich shop customer disliked the pickles. Now she's in one with the cops.

A Massachusetts woman who ordered a steak-and-cheese sub at a subway station was so angry about "too many pickles" on her sandwich that she punched an employee and shoved two jars of pickles at her, transit police said Monday.
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Kate Krader (@kkrader on Twitter) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor. When she tells us where to find our culinary heart's desire, we listen up.

Not that anyone has anything against flowers, but there are a lot of them out there on Mother’s Day. In fact, About Flowers, an online flower resource created by the Society of American Florists, reports that 38 percent of U.S. adults bought flowers or plants for their mothers on the big day.

Which is why it seems like a good thing to mix it up this year. So many terrific cakes need a good home this Mother’s Day. Here are some excellent options for a wide assortment of moms.

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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.

Grab some fresh fruit of the sea – May 10 is National Shrimp Day!

Whether you bake, boil, fry, grill, put 'em in a stew, serve 'em Southern-style with grits, stir into a scampi or stick on top of a cocktail, shrimp can be served so many ways, you'll run out daylight first.

At the base of soups or used for flavoring, shrimp is at the heart of Asian cooking. In Spain, folks like to toss them in with paella while Italians include shrimp in their pasta dishes. Coconut shrimp is a favorite in Caribbean cuisine, and curried shrimp is alive and well in Southeast Asia. And of course, fried shrimp is king here in the U.S.
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