August 15, 2022 - National Relaxation Day | National Lemon Meringue Pie Day

Welcome to August 15th, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate kicking up our feet and a cheerful pastry. The world seems to go a million miles an hour and we all need time to ourselves to decompress. For some, it’s meditation. For others, it’s getting a massage. And for a select few, it’s putting your feet in water and letting small fish chew away at dead skin. No really. That’s a thing. Fish pedicures are perfectly safe but it’s not for the squeamish. The point is that anything you do to relax is a okay as long as it chills you out. Today, please feel free to lean back and prop up your feet while you celebrate National Relaxation Day. If you’re taking things easy on this sunny Summer day, then boy do we have the dessert for you. Bright as the sun and as “easy as pie” a lemon meringue would do nicely right about now. Though lemons grow year round and nothing brightens up a meal come rain or shine quite like lemon juice, it’s time to bake up this old fashioned shortbread crust with tangy yellow custard topped with fluffy clouds of sweet meringue. It’s rumored that Elizabeth Goodfellow first whipped up the dessert as we know it today in the 19th century, when she also founded one of the first cooking schools in America. On National Lemon Meringue Pie Day, celebrate with an all time classic that reminds us of sunshine in the clouds. I’m Anna Devere and I’m John McClain Filling in for Marlo Anderson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices