Your 30 October food & drink takeaways
Colourful character who was ‘the father of mixing cocktails’, the man who decided the world needed a cheese slicer and a sense of tea with Jane Austen.
Just some of food & drink delights that 30 October brings to the table.
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A curated taster menu of every day’s food & drink associations
Food and drink birthdays
1830
American bartender, ‘the father of American mixology’ for his pioneering work in popularizing cocktails across the United States, author of the first known cocktail book, Bar-tender’s Guide
1877
American cookbook author, best known for The Joy of Cooking, one of the world’s most widely read cookbooks
1889
Norwegian inventor of the cheese slicer
1967
Peruvian chef, worldwide restaurateur and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine.
"It would be no exaggeration to say that if ceviche has become a world-famous recipe, he surely had an important part in it."
1972
Italian-Argentine celebrity chef and writer
1976
American chef
Food and drink in writing
English writer Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense & Sensibility, was published on this day in 1811, relating the coming-of-age story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne – contrasting the ‘sense’ of Elinor with the ‘sensibility’ of Marianne.
There are 16 references to tea in the novel, according to this online article on tea culture in the 19th century.
“References to tea in Jane Austen’s stories reveal the significant part that tea played, the times at which it was drunk, and the gradual shifting of mealtimes in late Georgian and Regency England,” adds the Boston Tea Part Ships & Museum website.
In home settings, tea provided a reason to see neighbours, the article goes on. “In Sense and Sensibility Sir John never came to the Dashwoods without either inviting them to dine at the Park the next day, or to drink tea with them that evening.” On one particular occasion, “he wishes to engage them for both. ‘You must drink tea with us to-night,’ he said, ‘for we shall be quite alone – and tomorrow you must absolutely dine with us, for we shall be a large party.’”
Food and drink art of the day
Lady Drinking Tea by Swedish genre painter Niclas Lafrensen, born on this day in 1737.
