Food & drink takeaways – 19 September
How to avoid a ‘faulty’ Waldorf salad, the man who gave a chocolate empire added Bournville and images of eating and drinking during the golden age of illustration.
Just some of the food & drink delights for which we give thanks to 19 September.
Click on the links for extra helpings.
A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Food on screen
Classic comedy series Fawlty Towers made its debut on BBC TV on this day in 1975.
Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) and his wife Sybil (Prunella Scales) own a small hotel. The staff include Manuel (Andrew Sachs), a Spanish waiter who cannot speak English and Polly Sherman (Connie Booth),, a cook-waitress.
The opening episode revolves around snobbish Basil’s fawning over a supposed aristocratic guest but one of the series’ standout memories is the episode Waldorf Salad when customer dissatisfaction with the Fawlty Towers dining experience comes to a head over an unexpected and insistent order for the dish.
If, like Basil, you need some guidance as to what goes into the classic Waldorf Salad {pic below}, the BBC Good Food page makes a much better job of it here.
Food birthdays
1839
English chocolate manufacturer, third son of Cadbury’s founder John Cadbury, who expanded his father’s company with the creation of the Bournville factory
1935
Australian chef and cookbook author
1960
American chef, restaurateur and writer, an expert on the history and culture of Italian cuisine
1964
Swedish chef
1969
American chef and author
Food art of the day
The Old Man had to sit by himself and ate his food from a wooden bowl...from The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, pub. 1909 (colour litho) by leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period, Arthur Rackham, born on this day in 1867.
"The year 1900 marked the breakthrough of Rackham’s success as a book illustrator with the publication of his illustrated The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. This book featured ninety-nine black-and-white drawings with a color frontispiece."
