Irony Not On The Menu

[elfs]

Quick, can you tell me where this was served?

Before Dinner:

• Corn-stuffed caviar
• Smoked salmon and sea urchin "pain surprise" style
• Hot onion tart
• Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

Appetizer Tray:

• 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, "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam
• Water shield and pickled conger 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 sauce and sugar

Soup: Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup

Main Dish, one of:

• Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce
• Milk fed "shiranuka" lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard
• Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil

And the wine:

• Le Reve grand cru champagne
• Corton Charlemagne 2005
• Chateau Latour burgundy
• Ridge California Monte Bello 1997
• Tokaji Essencia 1999

Sounds yummy, don't it? This was all eaten by our Dear Leaders at the G8 summit the night they discussed the problems of world hunger.

You wouldn't really know that reading the Washington Post or the New York Times. I heard on NPR the discussion of the G8 and their talking about world hunger and wondered what was on the menu that night, and thankfully journalists in other English-speaking nations wondered the same thing..