Food & drink takeaways - 22 August
A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Breakfast is set for a transformation, the man who put pressure on in the kitchen (in a good way) and a cautionary drinking quote from a legendary wit.
Just some of the treats that 22 August brings to the food and drink table. Click on the links for extras.
Food birthdays
1647
French-English physicist, inventor of the pressure cooker
1867
Swiss doctor, developed the cereal Muesli {header photo}
1932
Italian restaurateur, opened the celebrity haunt San Lorenzo in Knightsbridge
1974
Danish chef and restaurateur, head chef and co-owner of the three Michelin star Copenhagen restaurant, Geranium
Food in art
Sunday on the Marne by French photographer and painter Henri Cartier-Bresson, born on this day in 1908
"Sunday on the Marne captures the spontaneity of a picnic. Two bourgeois couples, all very hefty, sit on a barrier alongside the Marne, eating a picnic lunch. The background is their boat moored on the embankment. The lunch is spread out on a cloth. There is a hamper and wine. They eat on ceramic plates and use proper cutlery. Drink from authentic glasses."
Food quotes
Legendary American humorist and writer Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893
