Is anybody else watching Blumenthal's Christmas Dinner?

[santaslittlepeatbogelf]

The man's a mad genius, I tell you

If he thought it would improve the flavour, he would.

(Kathy... completely OT, but is the E your original name or a married name? I am now vaguely wondering if we were actually in next-door rooms in the Beehive...)

Just looked. It is £115 per person for the taster menu. The accompanying wine ranges from 90 quid per person to 200+

Yikes.

I can't believe I didn't know this was on!

(Lemonaid - original name.... I was in the Beehive.... you will have to give me some more clues!)

Awwww, now he's made it snow! You see, really he's a frustrated theatrical designer.

Middle staircase? The level next to the bathrooms (can't remember room numbers, but going up the stairs to go in and then up a couple more stairs)? Matriculated 1990? I began with an E as well and was next to a classicist who seemed very nice but scarily intelligent... (I make no comment )

I meant clues as to who you are I was a classicist.
Does your name begin with L?

(always felt very thick, def not scarily intelligent, but that's just the St John's effect!)

I dunno..this food fetish stuff sits very uneasily with me...although I certainly wouldn't turn dow a trip to the Fat DFuck meself.

Yes (the L). And I was a lawyer, although I think I've mentioned that before.

I knew you were a classicist and there at the same time as me. And called Kathy but apparently not six inches high at the time (I surmise a tragic boil-wash accident in the intervening years).

Bah. You classicists were all scarily intelligent, so far as the rest of us were concerned...

Why Moondog?
Is it because it is so extravagant and politically/morally that feels wrong?

I know who you are

You and your friends all seemed a lot nicer and more normal than mine and also equally intelligent, just less keen to show everyone else how clever you were. Classicists do like to seem clever - it's why they do classics. We used to call our teddy bears after different schools of literary theory - FFS!

My friend Louise called her pot plants (plant that grew in a pot, just for clarification) after various Law Lords. But then she got a first...

Missed it- is it true he ate a filled bauble?

I think so Kathy.
Not sure though. Stil lexploring my isshooos,althouh heaven knows, am more than happy to pay loads for good food and booze.

ROFL @ the pot plants! Why does that not surprise me?

Moondog - I think for me, what makes it ok is that there is a lot of genuine skill and craft that goes into producing these expensive ingredients and making the food. I am a lot more comfortable with that than with people paying £10000s for things basically because they are fashionable. If we are an affluent society, spending money creating wonderful food seems like a relatively benign and innocent way to spend it.

absolutely. better than a fucking handbag.

Ah yes,you are right.
I like that proviso.