Your 11 October food & drink takeaways
The visionary behind the 57 varieties legend, take-off for the first airline meals and what was eaten on an 18th century lads’ night out.
Just some of food & drink delights that 11 October brings to the table.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Food and drink birthdays
1844
American businessman, founder of the H.J. Heinz Company empire and creator of its ’57 varieties’ slogan
"The Heinz slogan dates back to 1892. . .at this point, Henry J. Heinz's company had a long history of selling food products, beginning with bottled horseradish. . . The company, in partnership with a pickle and vinegar maker, started also selling pickles, and by the 1890s was selling more than 60 products, including mincemeat and pepper sauce."
1881
Italian chef, magazine editor, food writer and book author. Her most famous book, Il talismano della felicità, published in 1928, is considered one of the classic Italian cookbooks
1983
Chinese-American chef
Food firsts
1919
First airline meals are served – lunch boxes of sandwiches, fruit and chocolate (costing three shillings) – on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris.
Leftovers
1765
Today's edition of the London newspaper, the Gazetteer And New Daily Advertiser, included an account of a boys’ night out that proves these are not just a modern phenomenon:
"On Monday last was held the annual club-feast of a Society of Beef-eating, Beer-drinking Britons, at a public house in Fetter-lane. Their bill of fare were three large buttocks of beef, 60 cabbages, eight geese, and the same number of giblet pies, one large Cheshire cheese, two double Gloucester, ditto toasted, and no more bread than eight quatern loaves; two butts of beer were tapped on this occasion, and no thing was left for supper. The company consisted of 100 members only."
