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A moment of Zen

Goodpasture

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Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions.
On Sunday, Mr Brown called for prudence and thrift in our kitchens, after a Government report concluded that 4.1million tonnes of food was being wasted by householders.

A World Bank study released last week estimated that up to 105million more people, including 30million in Africa, could drop below the poverty line because of rising food prices.

The money will be used to buy seed and fertiliser and fund agriculture projects in Africa.

But yesterday the Prime Minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis.

The dinner, and a six-course lunch, at the summit of leading industrialised nations on the island of Hokkaido, included delicacies such as caviar, milkfed lamb, sea urchin and tuna, with champagne and wines flown in from Europe and the U.S.

Last night's dinner menu was created by Katsuhiro Nakamura, the first Japanese chef to win a Michelin star. It was themed: Hokkaido, blessings of the earth and the sea.

The meal was served at the Windsor Hotel, on the shores of Lake Toya, where the presidential suite costs £7,000 a night.

I suppose some sort of commentary should be made here, but the obvious is SO obvious that it really does not warrant reiterating. A true moment of Zen...............
 
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Anonymous

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A World Bank study released last week estimated that up to 105million more people, including 30million in Africa, could drop below the poverty line because of rising food prices.

Yep- and even in this country the Meals on Wheels program is reporting its out of money to deliver meals to the home stranded invalids and elderly because of the Bush/Cheney energy policy's gas prices...

And these folks are dining on 6 course luncheons and 8 course dinners with caviar, smoked salmon, and hairy crabs - while discussing global food shortages and the high price of global food.... :???:
I wonder how much food GW and his fellow Kings of the World wasted at this little settee :???: ....

Heres the full menu-- most of which I'd puke on...Didn't see any MD 20/20 on the wine list... :wink: :lol: :p
But I'm not a "connysewer" either...





First course:

Amuse-bouche

Corn stuffed with caviar

Smoked Salmon and Sea Urchin "Pain Surprise style"

Hot Onion Tart

Winter Lily Bulb and Summer Savory

Second course:

Folding Fan Modeled Tray decorated with Bamboo Grasses for Tanabata Festival

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, Japanese Herb "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam

Water Shield and Pink Conger dressed with Vinegary Soy Sauce

Boiled Prawn and Jellied Tosazu-Vinegar

Grilled Eel rolled around Burdock strip

Sweet Potato

Fried and Seasoned Goby with Soy Sauce and Sugar

Third course:

Hairy Crab "Kegani" Bisque Style Soup

Fourth course:

Salt-Grilled Bighand Thornyhead with Vinegary Water Pepper Sauce

Fifth course:

Poele of Milk Fed lamb from "Shiranuka" flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard and roasted Lamb with "cepes" and Black Truffle with emulsion sauce of Lamb's stock and pine seed oil

Sixth course:

Our special selection Cheese, lavender honey and caramelized nuts

Seventh course:

G8 Fantasy dessert

Eighth course:

Coffee served with Candied Fruits and Vegetables

Wines:

Le Reve Grand Cru Brut/La Seule Gloire Champagne

ISOJIMAN Junmai Daiginjo Nakadori (Sake)/Isojiman Shuzo Shizuoka

Corton Charlemagne 2005/Louis Latour Bourgogne

Ridge California Monte Bello 1997

Now obviously 8 courses IS a lot, especially considering the fact they had a 6 course lunch!
 

Goodpasture

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While I LOVE Kobe beef, I am not sure I would like it flavored with kelp.......but the truffles with lamb and pine nut sauce sounds good, as does the Cheese with lavender honey. For a sweet aromatic honey like that, I am sure the cheese was a french cream cheese such as a brie.....I can't imagine it with an aggressive cheese like a goats milk or Camembert.....

Is this where the concubine turns and says "Let them eat cake"?

I wonder if they get that kind of food in Crawford?
 
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Anonymous

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I wonder if all elitist neocons eat this stuff- could this be why they develop the policies they do :???: :wink: :lol:

Boy the worldwide Blogs are just having a hayday-- ripping the world leaders of the so called richest 8 nations of the world and the countries where those leaders come from a new rear end ....

STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!
 

Cal

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Well good for them, they didn't eat anything the poor people would have eaten anyway.....that would have been taking food right out of the mouths of the hungry. :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Cal said:
Well good for them, they didn't eat anything the poor people would have eaten anyway.....that would have been taking food right out of the mouths of the hungry. :roll:

About the most Bourgeoisie statement since little Ms Antoinette made her "let them eat cake" (bread) statement...And then lost her head- much the same way the Repub party is going to lose their's for the same elitist thinking.... :wink:
 

Cal

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Oldtimer said:
Cal said:
Well good for them, they didn't eat anything the poor people would have eaten anyway.....that would have been taking food right out of the mouths of the hungry. :roll:

About the most Bourgeoisie statement since little Ms Antoinette made her "let them eat cake" (bread) statement...And then lost her head- much the same way the Repub party is going to lose their's for the same elitist thinking.... :wink:
Oh please, top world leaders meet in Japan and you bellyache because Japan put their best foot foreward as host....no surprise. Would starving people have been saved if they had done things differently?
 
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