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Food & drink takeaways - 31 August

David Knight • 1 September 2024

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

An £8,730 pie, a big day for famous cheeses and happy birthday to two Michelin star big cheeses of the kitchen. 

Just some of the delights that 31 August brings to the food and drink table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Food firsts

1666

Inhabitants of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in southern France are granted the exclusive right to mature Roquefort cheese by the Toulouse Parliament 

1983

Camembert cheese of Normandy receives the coveted AOC designation (Appellation d’Origine Controlle) – which confirms that products must come from a certain area and be made in a certain way in order to have the name of the product

Food records

2023

A Guinness record is set for the most expensive pie sold at auction – the Hometown Family Pharmacy in Ontario, Canada, paid £8,730 ($15,000 Canadian dollars) for it at a fund-raising event for a children's centre to honour their late co-owner Lonie Kady.

Food birthdays

1786

Michel-Eugene Chevreul

French chemist who began the study of fats and investigated and named margarine

1930

Len Evans

English-born Australian wine expert. He did “more to advance the cause of wine in Australia than any other individual” according to The Oxford Companion to Wine

1964

Matthew Kenney

American chef and author, specialises in plant-based cuisine

1969

Atul Kochhar

Indian-born Michelin-starred restaurateur, TV chef and author, Great British Menu, Saturday Kitchen, Atul’s Spice Kitchen

1971

Devin Alexander

American celebrity chef, author and TV personality

1974

Johnny Iuzzini

American pastry chef, TV celebrity, and cookbook author

1977

Virgilio Martínez Véliz

Peruvian Michelin-star chef and restaurateur, considered one of the new generation of Peruvian chefs promoting the spread of Peruvian cuisine

Your 31 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
What foods make Halloween, a UK Sausage Week feast day for the patron saint of butchers and the man behind probably the first book written about salads. Just some of food & drink delights for which we give thanks to 31 October. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 30 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Colourful character who was ‘the father of mixing cocktails’, the man who decided the world needed a cheese slicer and a sense of tea with Jane Austen.  Just some of food & drink delights that 30 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 29 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Sparkling confectionery from Britain’s top chocolatier, an artist sets the table for a bubbly get-together and the Champagne’s on ice in a cool movie gesture. Just some of food & drink delights that 29 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 28 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 20 November 2024
Revolutionary ways of ‘one of the most influential Western chefs in history’, meaty art from a bold British artist and for relaxing times. . . make it Suntory time. . . Just some of food & drink delights that 28 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 27 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 18 November 2024
A troubled poet’s extraordinary go-to recipe, a pop artist’s mouthwatering dessert and a downtrodden movie wife’s shocking calamari revelations. Just some of food & drink delights that 27 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 26 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 17 November 2024
The dish that gives a country its identity, pioneering women chefs who championed a classic cuisine and a week-long banquet that came to a melodramatic conclusion. Just some of food & drink delights that 26 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 25 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 17 November 2024
Favourite dish of an art colossus and the Champagne regrets of a national treasure on the day that the world celebrates it. Just some of food & drink delights that 25 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 24 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
Twenty minutes for chefs to create a dish with ingredients costing less than £5, 40 years cooking for the leaders of the world and the artist whose work is ‘liking drinking a good glass of red wine’ Just some of food & drink delights that 24 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 23 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
The epitome of cheesecakes from a pastry chef extraordinaire, lychees and peaches with a sensual touch and the festival ‘for women who wouldn’t have thought beer was for them’. Just some of food & drink delights that 23 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings.

Your 22 October food & drink takeaways

by David Knight • 14 November 2024
An lavishly sweet tribute to an extravagant theatre star, the man who coined the term ‘alcoholism’ and a literary ‘what should come first’ picnic conversation about chicken and eggs. Just some of food & drink delights that 22 October brings to the table. Click on the links for extra helpings. 
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