Your 13 October food & drink takeaways
The day marmalade found a universal torchbearer, the movie world reveals one of its most brutal restaurants and the Renaissance painter who ‘devoted himself to a lower and less tiring and more cheerful art’ – opening a tavern.
Just some of food & drink delights that 13 October brings to the table.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Food in writing
1958
A celebrated marmalade lover makes his debut in children’s literature as Harper Collins publishes A Bear called Paddington
"With only his hat and old, battered suitcase in tow (with a glass jar of marmalade tucked away inside), the Brown family takes him in, and his adventures begin. . . celebrate the stories he’s given us, by making a jar of
Paddington’s favourite–marmalade."
Food on screen
1989
English film director Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – starring Michael Gambon and Helen Mirren – opens in UK cinemas.
"At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge."
Food in art
1474
High Renaissance painter of the Florentine school. His style upheld the principles of the High Renaissance in Florence. . . until he gave it up to run a restaurant in Florence.
As the website of Il Pennello (you can still eat there) in piazza San Martino says:
"The restaurant Il Pennello was born in Florence in the place where the ancient tavern of the painter Mariotto Albertinelli was located. As Vasari says in the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects.
"Becoming a hater of the sophistries and the brainless drippings of painting, and often being bitten by the tongues of painters, as is their constant custom, and by inheritance maintained, he resolved to devote himself to a lower and less tiring and more cheerful art; and he opened a beautiful tavern outside the Porta San Gallo and on the Ponte Vecchio al Drago a tavern and tavern that he made for many months."
The tavern had as customers Giuliano Bugiardini and Innocenzo da Imola, students of Albertinelli, and also Benvenuto Cellini, Michelangelo, Maso Manzuoli, Pontormo and Andrea del Sarto."
