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Food & drink takeaways - 3 August

David Knight • 2 August 2024

Curated titbits about every day's food & drink associations

Celebration days

Independence Day – Niger

"Djerma stew is the national dish of Niger. It is a fairly typical eclectic mix of European and African cuisines, quite common in post-colonial west Africa"


Unofficial

International Hangover Day

"International Hangover Day is celebrated on the day after International Beer Day"

Food Day Canada

"One massive celebration in praise of Canada's farmers and fishers, chefs and researchers and, above all, its home cooks"

USA: Watermelon Day

"Why the 3rd of August? Who cares, it's a good excuse to eat a watermelon, carve a watermelon or, in our case, use watermelons in cocktails"

USA: White Wine Day

USA: Mustard Day

USA: Mead Day

USA: Jamaican Patty Day

Food & drink events

PieFest

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

3-4 August


Foodies Festival

Edinburgh

2-4 August

Food & drink birthdays

1878

Franciszek Trzesniewski

Polish gourmand and cook who pioneered bite-sized, open-faced sandwiches

1941

Martha Stewart

American entrepreneur, TV personality, entertaining advisor and cookbook author, The Martha Stewart Cookbook, Entertaining, Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook



Your 31 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
What foods make Halloween, a UK Sausage Week feast day for the patron saint of butchers and the man behind probably the first book written about salads. Just some of food & drink delights for which we give thanks to 31 October. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 30 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Colourful character who was ‘the father of mixing cocktails’, the man who decided the world needed a cheese slicer and a sense of tea with Jane Austen.  Just some of food & drink delights that 30 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 29 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Sparkling confectionery from Britain’s top chocolatier, an artist sets the table for a bubbly get-together and the Champagne’s on ice in a cool movie gesture. Just some of food & drink delights that 29 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 28 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Revolutionary ways of ‘one of the most influential Western chefs in history’, meaty art from a bold British artist and for relaxing times. . . make it Suntory time. . . Just some of food & drink delights that 28 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 27 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 18 November 2024
A troubled poet’s extraordinary go-to recipe, a pop artist’s mouthwatering dessert and a downtrodden movie wife’s shocking calamari revelations. Just some of food & drink delights that 27 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 26 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 17 November 2024
The dish that gives a country its identity, pioneering women chefs who championed a classic cuisine and a week-long banquet that came to a melodramatic conclusion. Just some of food & drink delights that 26 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 25 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 17 November 2024
Favourite dish of an art colossus and the Champagne regrets of a national treasure on the day that the world celebrates it. Just some of food & drink delights that 25 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 24 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
Twenty minutes for chefs to create a dish with ingredients costing less than £5, 40 years cooking for the leaders of the world and the artist whose work is ‘liking drinking a good glass of red wine’ Just some of food & drink delights that 24 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 23 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
The epitome of cheesecakes from a pastry chef extraordinaire, lychees and peaches with a sensual touch and the festival ‘for women who wouldn’t have thought beer was for them’. Just some of food & drink delights that 23 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 22 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
An lavishly sweet tribute to an extravagant theatre star, the man who coined the term ‘alcoholism’ and a literary ‘what should come first’ picnic conversation about chicken and eggs. Just some of food & drink delights that 22 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings. 
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