Culinary Quiz of the Day
If you could invite a person who is no longer living to dinner 1. Who would that person be? 2. What would you serve?
My answer: Orson Welles. Since he loved life and food I would serve a red wine friendly dinner. I would start off with a Pasta Puttanesca with either linguine or penne and then for secondi I would serve a bone-in ribeye steak with some sauteed spinach or rapini on the side. For dessert I would do a coffee granita with Amaretto whipped cream.
Watch for my recipe for Puttanesca sauce in an upcoming entry (keeps you reading!)
posted by Bon Vivant at 11:14 PM
4 Comments:
This is the first person who came to mind. So here goes. I would invite French poet Francois Villon, who, in addition to being a poet, was a thief and murderer who vanished sometime in the 1400's (I have strange tastes in men). Let's assume for the sake of this post that he's planning to be a perfect gentleman with me. I would get to pick his brain about writing over dinner, not to mention practicing my 15th century French (right).
I would serve steak. I'm not sure what would go with it. I'm thinking something green, maybe something with spinach. And a second side dish of some kind of noodles with some kind of cheese. Naturally somebody else would do the cooking, since I don't know how to cook steak. I could handle the noodles. I could probably handle the spinach dish, too.
And red wine. And here's hoping he's not a gourmet despite being French, at least if he has to eat my cooking!
10:17 PM
What would Villian Villon think of our 21st century food?
What would we think of 15th century food?(maybe if we were in France it would help.)
10:00 AM
I have a feeling Villon would be okay with modern French food. American food? I dunno. It did occur to me that I could go all-American and serve him a hamburger and fries, but I figured that would probably gross him out!
I'm guessing you and I could handle 15th century food. I would totally be down for trying it if there were any way I could.
12:22 PM
I would invite Grace Patricia Grimaldi, a.k.a Princess Grace of Monaco. I would ask her what it was like living in what is basically The Riviera, and how she coped with such a huge change. She never learnt to speak French, icidentally! What food did she miss from Philadelphia,and what French food did she develop a passion for. She regularly made breakfast scrapple, I hear, for her visiting American friends. And of course, like everyone else, I would worship her too! My favourite image of Grace is one of her attending a very stiff and formal gala, and she is clutching an ice cream cone in her one hand! Priceless.
10:31 AM
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