Dinner Menu at the G8 Summit
What the world’s leaders ate on our behalf…..
Following on from yesterday’s post with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown lecturing his faithful flock on what they should eat I thought it interesting to read what the world’s leaders ate whilst they discussed Third World poverty and the rising cost of food and fuel.
The meal was the icing on top of a very expensive gathering, £283 million to be precise with the purpose built International Media Centre costing a mere £8 million a day onlyto be dismantled at the end of the summit.
So here you have it, whilst children starve and their parents die of Aids in Africa and the brutalist regimes of Zimbabwe and Burma carry on regardless this lot got stuck into the following:
Corn Stuffed with Caviar
Smoked Salmon and Sea Urchin “bread suprise style”
Hot Onion Tart
Winter Lily Bulb and Summer Savory
Kelp-flavoured Cold Kyoto Beef Shabu Shabu, Asparagus Dressed with Sesame Cream
Diced Fatty Flesh of Tuna Fish, Avocado and Jellied Soy Sauce and Japanese Herb Shiso
Boiled Clam, Tomato, Sisho in Jellied Clear Soup of Clam
Pink Conger Eel Dressed with Vinegar Soy Sauce
Boiled Prawn with Jellied Tosazu Vinegar
Grilled Eel Rolled around Burdock Strip
Sweet Potato
Fried and Seasoned Goby with Soy and Sugar
Hairy Crab Kegani Bisque Soup
Salt Grilled Bighand Thornyhead with Vinegary Water Pepper Sauce
Milk-Fed Lamb from Shiranuku flavoured with Aromatic Herbs and Mustard
Roasted Lamb and Ceps and Black Truffle with Emulsion sauce of Lamb’s Stock and Pine Seed Oil
Special Cheese Selection, Lavender Honey and Caramelised Nuts
G8 Fantasy Dessert
Coffee with Candied Fruits and Vegetables
Now you can’t expect them to eat all of that without something to wash it down with:
Le Reve Grand Cru Champagne
Japanese Sake
Corton Charlemagne 2005
Chateau Latour Burgundy
Ridge California Monte Bello 1997
Tokaji Essencia 1999
I just hope Gordon Brown ate it all, he hates waste you know.