Eat & Drink
Originally published on Tuesday, 6th July 2010
Feeding Frenzy
Mealtimes get a makeover.
Strawberries with cream, picnics in the park and canapés in the courtyard – a gastro-spread which only points to one thing – summer. But if traditional fare isn’t tickling your taste buds, there’s a new crop of quirky cuisine to tempt you off the lawn.
Or as it happens - to the critters living on it. If you couldn’t find the gap-year guts to try Thailand’s street stall savouries, The London Kitchen’s calling you out on your cowardice. Try green crickets in coriander and coconut cream, scorpions in a white chocolate fondue, ostrich niçoise and bison carpaccio, and calmer canapés including ham hock and mini Yorkshire puddings at their travelling pop-up bar.
And if you’re over dreary dinner parties, Courvoisier Future 500 has the antidote. The follow-up to last year’s amazing Architectural Punch Bowl comes in the form of Courvoisier Presents The Complete History of Food with Bompas & Parr. Transforming an entire house, chefs and creatives from the likes of Saf, Lounge Bohemia and Bistrotheque are inviting visitors to eat their way through the past and future of food via flooded dining rooms, giant sugar sculptures and dinner in the belly of a dinosaur.
But if all you need to make your menu magical is a mind-altering morsel, check out The Rebel Dining Society’s ‘Pernod Absinthe Green Hour’, a fantastical five course meal with green stuff to spare. Access to the fairy is limited and by invitation only, so register online and see if you get lucky – unlike London’s insect inhabitants. Go on, take a bite.
UJ have one pair of seriously coveted tickets for the Rebel Dining Society’s ‘Pernod Absinthe Green Hour’ on the 28th July to give away. To be in with a chance of winning simply This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. : Which songstress played the green fairy in Moulin Rouge?
Info
The Complete History of Food
14th-18th July.
The London Kitchen Pop-Up
Thursdays in July.
8th July: lunchtime in The City, 15th July: 5:30pm in Covent Garden, 22nd July: 5:30pm in Chelsea.
The Rebel Dining Society ‘Pernod Absinthe Green Hour’
From 28th July, Secret Location.
£15
