National Mustard Day

“Mustard is the little black dress of condiments. It goes with everything.” — Julia Child Here’s a new one for you: a holiday dedicated to a condiment. Really? I kid you not. August 5th is National Mustard Day, “a culinary celebration dedicated to mustard, one of the world’s oldest and most versatile condiments.” In fact, mustard is the most popular and widely used spice and condiment in the world, according to Wiki. A Mustard field - Photo Credit: Nafiur Rahman According to the website Serious Eats “At its most basic, mustard is made by mixing the ground seeds of the mustard plant with liquid, but it's the choice of seeds and type of liquid used that creates the varieties of mustard.” Dating back to early Roman cooks who combined ground mustard seeds with an unfermented grape juice called must to make the hot paste mustum ardens ( burning must), mustard has been one of the most favored condiments in the world for millennia. Mustard seeds, mustard powder and mustard paste Photo…