Food & drink takeaways - 25 August
A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Instant noodles are launched, a competitive cooking show for professional chefs makes its debut and a Surrealist artist’s twist on fish dishes.
Just some of the delights that 25 August brings to the food and drink table.
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Food on screen
2008
BBC’s competitive cooking show MasterChef: The Professionals makes its debut presented by Gregg Wallace and Michel Roux Jnr {header photo}. Over 19 episodes, chefs from British kitchens are put through tasks – including making wild mushroom risotto and Sole a la Meuniere – before Scottish chef Derek Johnstone emerges the winner and goes on to take a job with Michel Roux Jr at Le Gavroche restaurant in London.
Food in art
One challenge that definitely wouldn't have made it onto MasterChef: The Professionals would have been to recreate Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning's Poached Trout. American painter Tanning – born on this day in 1910 – "was influenced by her dreams, revealing her head to be full of faceless figures, windswept women in strange domestic settings, and rather unappetising fishy feasts."
Food firsts
1810
A method for preserving food using tin cans is patented in the UK by British merchant Peter Durand
“Durand. . .changed food preservation with his sterilized and sealed tin food cannister”
1958
Nissin Food founder Momofuku Ando markets the first pre-cooked instant noodles – Chickin Ramen – in Japan
