Although Mr Churchill enjoyed French haut cuisine he also like English traditional food like fowl, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding and Stilton cheese for dessert. A dinner for Mr Churchill's birthday could include: raw oysters, Petite Marmite (a clear soup), Beef and Yorkshire with new peas, cold vintage Pol Roger Champagne, Stilton cheese and Hine brandy or Johnny Walker Red Scotch.
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1874/11/30 | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill is born at 1:30 in the morning at Blenheim Palace to Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill, Blenheim Palace. | Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire |
1874/12/27 | Winston Churchill is baptized in the chapel at Blenheim by the Reverend Henry William Yale. | Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire |
1954/11/30 | In Westminster Hall, members of the House of Commons and House of Lords honor Sir Winston Churchill with a portrait of himself painted by Graham Sutherland. Churchill said it had "force and candour", but he also thought is was "filthy" and "malignant". | Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster |
1955/00/00 | Sometime in 1955, Lady Churchill hides the Sutherland portrait of Winston in the cellars at Chartwell. Later having her private secretary,Grace Hamblin,take it in the dead of night to be burned. | Chartwell, Westerham |
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