Monday, July 07, 2008

Menu At Our Overlords' G8 Food Crisis Summit

Just two of the 19 dishes on the dinner menu at the G8 food shortages summit

"After discussing famine in Africa, the peckish politicians and five spouses took on four bite-sized amuse-bouche to tickle their palates. The price of staple foods may be soaring, but thankfully caviar and sea urchin are within the purchasing power of leaders and their taxpayers - the amuse-bouche featured corn stuffed with caviar, smoked salmon and sea urchin, hot onion tart and winter lily bulb.
Guests at the summit, which is costing £238m, were then able to pick items from a tray modelled on a fan and decorated with bamboo grasses, including diced fatty tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce, and pickled conger eel with soy sauce.
Hairy crab Kegani bisque-style soup was another treat in a meal prepared by the Michelin-starred chef Katsuhiro Nakamura, the grand chef at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo, alongside salt-grilled bighand thornyhead (a small, red Pacific fish) with a vinegary water pepper sauce.
They have told their people to tighten their belts for lean times ahead, but you feared for presidential and prime ministerial girdles after the chance to tuck into further dishes including milk-fed lamb, roasted lamb with cepes, and black truffle with emulsion sauce. Finally there was a "fantasy" dessert, a special cheese selection accompanied by lavender honey and caramelised nuts, while coffee came with candied fruits and vegetables.
Leaders cleverly skated around global water shortages by choosing from five different wines and liqueurs.
Earlier, the heads of state had restricted themselves to a light lunch of asparagus and truffle soup, crab and supreme of chicken served with nuts and beetroot foam, followed by a cheese selection, peach compote, milk ice-cream and coffee with petits fours."

2 Comments:

Blogger Nina said...

I've never understood these lavish gatherings, both political and private, that seek to discuss poverty and hunger. Why not spend the money you would on a tux or evening gown, cut in half the dollars spent on feeding everyone and use those dollars to actually buy food for those who really need it. It would be all the more credible.

8/7/08 11:08 AM  
Blogger nolocontendere said...

It's because they just don't care how it appears. If there was a time that what people thought of such opulent lavishness meant anything, it's long gone. We'll see more and more in your face classism as they try to impose their supremacy, with their vain, imperial mastership flaunted just like in every other period of history where smug certitude held sway.
Until we kill them.

8/7/08 3:37 PM  

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