Food & drink takeaways – 17 September
A movie villain’s cocktail welcome for an iconic secret agent, finely sliced garlic for prison meals and the perfect cookbook for people who don’t like to lift a finger in the kitchen.
Just some of the food and drink delights for which we can thank 17 September.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Food on screen
1964
James Bond movie Goldfinger starring Sean Connery as 007 {header photo} premieres in London
"Goldfinger is named after its antagonist, Auric Goldfinger. He and Bond meet at his horse ranch in Kentucky, so aptly enjoy a cocktail that is still consumed to this day in very large numbers at the annual Kentucky Derby – a mint julep."
1964
First episode of popular domestic comedy Bewitched airs on US television. Elizabeth Montgomery stars as witchy wife Samantha possessed with the power to right all wrongs (or vice versa) with the twitch of her nose.
"Everyone knows that Samantha Stephens didn't have to lift a finger in the kitchen... The Bewitched Cookbook is like having a sorceress in your own kitchen."
1990
Oscar winning mobster movie
Goodfellas premieres in California starring Robert de Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci – and the
painstaking garlic-slicing preparation of a mouth-watering pasta starter for a prison meal, rated by
Time Out
magazine as
one of the best 52 food moments on film
Food birthdays
1953
English chef and author, Smart Tart: Observation from My Cooking Life; Tamasin’s Perfect Pies; West of Ireland Summers, a Cook Book
1985
Best-selling, self-taught English cookbook author, chef real food activist and sustainability champion
Food art of the day
'Woman Preparing Spices' by Indian painter M.F. Husain, born on this day in 1915. Husain was one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century.
