Your 21 October food & drink takeaways
A menu dedicated to fish previously thought of as inedible, ‘humble haddock’ elevated by a great British chef and peddling fish with an American artist.
Just some of food & drink delights that 21 October brings to the table.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Dish of the day
1885
Bisque of Starfish, Sea Spider Crab a l’Infernal and 'Sea Robins, Bakes a l’Amphitrite' were among the items on the menu for the annual dinner of the Ichthyophagous Club in New York on this day, according to pre-eminent food historian Janet Clarkson.
She writes on her The Old Foodie website: "According to an article in the New York Times in July 1881, the club “was organized ostensibly to eat novel and entertaining fish. Its founders professed to believe that there are as good fish in the sea as have ever been put in the frying-pan, and they proposed to demonstrate this by eating fish that had hitherto being looked upon as inedible.”
"I would like to have given you a recipe for the bisque," she adds, "but sadly I was unable to find anything at all made from starfish."
Food art of the day
Fish Peddler by American painter Eleanor Coen, born on this day in 1916
Food and drink birthdays
1766
English merchant and inventor, received the first patent for preserving food using tin cans
1963
Scottish head chef at London’s Quo Vadis and TV chef, Great British Menu
Click on the pic below for his 'dreamy' steamed haddock recipe served with a heady saffron mash and gremolada for a verdant freshness. "A fabulously comforting dish that elevates the humble haddock to a thing of beauty.," says the Great British Chefs website.
