BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Thursday, October 13, 1824 (approximately)
Beethoven appears to be in Baden, reading yesterday’s newspapers from Vienna in a coffee house. An amusingly titled cookbook catches his eye, and he makes note of it and the fact it’s available at Grund’s book shop on Stephansplatz. The book is Was kochen wir heute? Was Morgen? Vollständigtes Kochbuch …