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Food & drink takeaways – 8 September

David Knight • 9 September 2024

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

A much-loved Hairy Biker, precise suggestions about what you should be eating this particular day and comic confusion over Duck a l’Orange.

Just some of the food and drink delights for which we have to thank 8 September.

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Food birthdays

1621

Prince Louis II de Condé

French general, known as the Great Condé, who loved to hunt and had a passion for rice. Several dishes have been named after him, including Riz Condé and Creme Condé

1911

Euell Gibbons

American proponent of natural diets during the 1960s and author, Euell Gibbon’s Beachcombers’ Handbook, Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop, Stalking the Wild Asparagus

1957

David Myers {header photo}

David Myers – English television chef, presenter and author, one half of The Hairy Bikers, The Hairy Bikers’ Great Curries, The Hairy Bikers’ British Classics, The Hairy Bikers Everyday Winners

1959

Charlie Trotter

American chef and restaurateur, his eponymous Michelin-starred Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world

1978

Luke Nguyen

Vietnamese-Australian chef, restaurateur and author

Dishes of the day

1871

Recommended day’s menu for two on 8 September in Cre-Fydd’s Family Fare or Young Housewife’s Daily Assistant, (published by Simpson, Marshall and Co, 1871) is broiled mushrooms, broiled haddock and eggs for breakfast; Julien soup followed by roast loin of mutton, scarlet beans and potatoes for dinner. Suggested dessert is potato pudding 

1884

Suggested day’s menu for eight on 8 September in The Franco-American cookery book; or, How to live well and wisely every day in the year (1884) by Felix J. Déliée  is Printanier soup;  sea-bass a la Buena-Vista, potato croquettes; round of beef a la Flamande; baked macaroni; roast chicken with cress, lettuce and Mayonnaise;.and peach fritters glazed.

Food on screen

1981

Classic sitcom Only Fools and Horses debuts on BBC starring David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce leading to continuous orderings of pina colada, misrepresentations of mangetout and fromage frais and the following confusion over duck a l’orange 

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