The G8 Fantasy Menu

Here is their menu - the eartheaters. No wonder humankind would need 5 (yes FIVE) Planet Earths if we all consumed as much as the industrialised world does! And if this is what a working lunch is like, I wouldn't mind rolling up my blouse sleeves and spitting on my palms!

The Lunch & Dinner Menu

Working Lunch:
White asparagus and truffle soup
Chaud-froid of Kegani crab
Almond oil foam and tapenade
Supreme of chicken, with stuffed thigh, nuts and orange savoury and beetroot foam
Cheese seletion
Peach compote, ice-cream and raspberry coulis
Coffee and petits fours

Wines:
Chateau Grillet 2005
Chambolle-Musigny 2005

Dinner:
Corn and caviar (sounds awful to me, but then I'm a Gzero)
Smoked salmon and sea urchin
Hot onion tart
Winter lily bulb and summer savoury
Kelp-flavoured beef and asparagus
Diced tuna, avocado and soy sauce jelly, and herbs
Boiled clam, tomato, shiso in jellied clam soup
Water shield and pink conger with soy sauce vinegar
Boiled prawn with tosazu vinegar jelly
Grilled eel and burdock
Fried goby fish with soy sauce and sugar
Hairy crab bisque soup (my throat, my throat!)
Grilled bighand thomyhead fish with pepper sauce
Milk-fed lamb flavoured with herbs and mustard,
and roast lamb with crepes and black truffle (these great wolves!)
Cheese, lavender honey and caramelised nuts
G8 “Fantasy” dessert (the kind that hops on the table in scanties?!!!)
Coffee and candied fruits and vegetables

Wines:
Le Reve Grand Cru Brut/La Seule Gloire Champagne
Sake/Isojman Shuzo Shizuoka
Corton Charlemagne 2005/Louis Latour Bourgogne
Ridoe California Monte Bello 1997

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