Get your Hamantaschen for Purim! It's on March 2nd.

Hi Food Lover,

I know our Spring Salehas just begun, but other things are happening, too.

The Jewish holiday of Purim is March 2nd this year. Like many of the holidays there's a food at the center of it all: hamantaschen.

The story goes like this:

A rich, powerful man by the name of Haman rose to be top advisor of the Persian empire. The king ordered everyone in the court to bow down and honor Haman, but one man wouldn't do it: Mordecai. There was history there, and Mordecai refused.

Powerful people hate that sort of thing, so Haman decreed that not only should Mordecai be killed, but all Jewish people in the kingdom. There was a problem with that plan: the queen—Esther—was Jewish.

In the end, everything Haman planned for Mordecai and the Jewish people backfired.

Haman paid the ultimate price, Mordecai became the top advisor, and we make tri-cornered cookies (Haman's hat was tri-cornered) to celebrate.