The POUPON U Accordion Band will kick off the National Mustard Day Festival at 9:30am, followed by a day filled with live music, mustard games, mustard tasting, kids' activities, free Oscar Mayer hot dogs, frozen mustard custard by Culver's, and more...
It all takes place at the National Mustard Museum at the corner of Parmenter & Hubbard and surrounding streets in downtown Middleton. Saturday, August 2 until 4pm.
National Mustard Day t-shirts for 2014 are now available! Get yours online now, or at NMD on Saturday (NMD014).
The Big 'Thanks'
Where shall we begin? Our major sponsors this year and for the past several years are the two iconic names in American mustards: French's and Grey Poupon. Thank you, thank you, and THANK YOU!
Other mustard makers that make National Mustard Day possible include:
Barhyte Foods
Beaverton Foods
Bertman Ballpark Mustard
Boetje's
Cherchies
El Diablo Mustards
Europeene des Condiments (Bornier and Musette)
Koops
Maille Moutarde
Morehouse Foods
Mucky Duck
Plochman Mustard
Robert Rothschild Farm
Shemp's
Terrapin Ridge
And a big thanks to these condimentally correct businesses who help us out on National Mustard Day:
Costco
Culver's
Event Essentials
Neena
Oscar Mayer
Pelliteri Waste Management
Sustainable Engineering Group
Think It Then Ink It
As well as these kind-hearted, generous, mustard fans:
Julia Ihlenfeldt (big smile for Julia!)
Nina Donnelly
Chrintine Lyng
Mary Duffy
Michael Webb
There's still time to chip in -- get your name on the program, it's as little as $42 for a Molybdenum Level Sponsorship (MD42).
Saskatchewan!
Who grows the best and most mustard seed? The mustard growers of Saskatchewan, Canada. Mustard makers around the world know that for uniform quality, nothing even comes close to the mustard seed -- brown and yellow -- grown in the prairie province of Saskatchewan.
A poem to the mustard makers of SK:
My friend John grows mustard seed.
He's a very busy man.
So where shall we catch up to John?
In the province of Saskatchewan.
No time to rest, no time to sleep
When you are growing mustard seed.
No snoozing on your patch of lawn
In the province of Saskatchewan.
The nights are short, the days are long
A climate ripe for mustard seed.
You'd best be quick to catch the dawn
In the province of Saskatchewan.
The finest mustards in the world
Begin their journeys here.
And when that final batch is gone
We're grateful to Saskatchewan.
Thanks to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission for supporting the National Mustard Museum and the 2014 National Mustard Day Festival in Middleton. See the Canada Mustard Seed exhibit at the Museum.
Parlez-Vous Moutarde?
In the 1997 edition of the Living Language course "All-Audio Frenchâ€, mustard is prominently featured in Lesson 8:
"Buy a jar of mustard and some pickles." = "Achetez un pot de moutarde et des cornichons."
"Waiter, bring me a jar of mustard." = "Monsieur, apportez-moi un pot de moutarde."
"I would like some mustard." = "Je voudrais de la moutarde."
There is also a French idiom, "La moutarde me monte au nez," meaning "I am really angry (literally, "Mustard is running up my nose"). And that, mustard fans, is our segue to ...
Notre Nouvelle Moutarde
We have a new French mustard and it's not from Dijon. Since 1580, they have been producing small quantities of mustard in the Loire Valley, the rare Moutarde d'Orleans. Made with the local vinegar and a special salt (sel de Guerande), this briny sharp mustard is an absolute treat.
Martin Pouret Moutarde d'Orleans (MPR100) is regularly $12, but in honor of National Mustard Day, it is on sale this week for just $9.95. Limit three per order.
(A note about the lid on this mustard: they used the wrong lid in this batch, a lid that "pops" up. Foods that are heat processed draw a vacuum when they cool; if you can depress the lid and it "pops," it means the vacuum has been compromised. This mustard was not heat processed -- real French mustards are never heat processed -- so there was never a vacuum. The lid can be depressed and may make a popping sound, BUT THAT IS OKAY. It's perfectly safe to eat and enjoy.)
Special Mustard Day Pricing for Slimm & Nunne
We'll be selling our Slimm & Nunne Trio (RTF22), with recipes, for just $15 on Mustard Day (reg. $17.95). You don't have to be here or even wait until Saturday to save -- order online!
CELEBRATE!
If you can't be with us on Mustard Day this Saturday, do what mustard fans around the world do. Raise a jar of mustard and point it towards Middleton in a royal salute to the King of Condiments. Celebrate Mustard!
