Your 10 October food & drink takeaways
Raise your glasses to World Porridge Day, the choice of bubbly for Britain's most famous secret service agent and the performance of a short sonata based on recipes.
Just some of food & drink delights that 10 October brings to the table.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Celebration days
"Launched in 2009 as a fundraising campaign for Mary’s Meals, a Scotland-based charity which sets up school feeding programmes in poor countries, where hunger prevents children from gaining an education. Porridge is a staple food in many countries."
If you'd like to support or celebrate it in traditional style {header photo}, use The Spruce Eats site as your recipe guide.
If you'd like to take a more unconventional approach, Difford's Guide can point you to the Atholl Brose, a Scotch whisky-based cocktail flavoured with oatmeal water.
UK: National Porridge Week (7-13 Oct)
UK: British Egg Week (7-13 Oct)
UK: National Curry Week 7-13 Oct
Unofficial
USA: Angel Food Cake Day
Food and drink on screen
1963
Spy adventure movie From Russia With Love starring Sean Connery as James Bond premieres in London.
"Taittinger Champagne is Bond's favourite champagne in the Ian Fleming novels and features prominently in the movie."
Leftovers
1948
First performance of Leonard Bernstein’s
La Bonne Cuisine: Four Recipes for Voice and Piano. The recipes translated and set to music by Bernstein were from the cookbook
La Bonne Cuisine Française by Emile Dumont, and his specific choices were 1. Plum Pudding 2. Queues de Boeuf (‘Ox Tails”) 3. Tavouk Gueunksis 4. Civet à Toute Vitesse (“Rabbit at Top Speed”).
