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Food & drink takeaways - 28 August

David Knight • 28 August 2024

A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations

Premiere of the ‘best ever’ food film, production of ‘one of Britain's greatest gifts to world gastronomy’ gets underway and a carbonated drink is given a more famous forever name. 

Just some of the delights that 28 August brings to the food and drink table.

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Food on screen

1987

Oscar-winning food movie classic Babette’s Feast premieres in its home country of Denmark, relating the events that follow the sudden arrival of Babette (Stephane Audrane), a refugee chef from Paris, to a remote village in Jutland.

For years, Babette works for two austere sisters in a pious community until she wins a lottery prize - with which she decides to pay for and make a sumptuous feast for the sisters and some guests.

The magnificent menu includes turtle soup with Armontillado sherry, buckwheat pancakes with caviar, quail in puff pastry with foie gras and truffles and a sponge cake soaked in rum with glace fruit.

"A love story about food and drink. It shows the transforming power of gastronomy in the most beautiful way."

Food firsts

1837

Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins begin production of their Worcestershire Sauce

“Without doubt one of Britain's greatest gifts to world gastronomy.”

1898

Brad's Drink – a carbonated drink served from the soda fountain of Caleb Brabham's pharmacy in New Bern, North Carolina - adopts a new name to emphasise its energy and digestive benefits (derived from its enzyme pepsin and cola nut  ingredients). It becomes Pepsi-Cola

Food birthdays

1957

Derry Clarke

Irish chef and TV personality

1980

Rachel Khoo

British chef, writer and broadcaster

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