Final Fantasy
The photographer Melanie Dunea has a new book called My Last Supper—portraits of 50 chefs who described what they would order if they knew the meal would be their last. In his introduction to the book, Anthony Bourdain explains the morbidity of chefs: “After their kitchens had closed, sitting at a wobbly table on the periphery of Les Halles in nineteenth-century Paris and drinking vin ordinaire, or while nibbling bits of chicken from skewers in the after-hours izakayas in Tokyo, or perched at the darkened bar of a closed New York City restaurant . . . someone always piped up: “If you were to die tomorrow, what single dish, what one mouthful of food from anywhere in the world or anytime in your life, would you choose as your last?”
Most popular answers: truffles, caviar, foie gras, bread, duck fat, sea urchin, whiskey.
Ali G asked a former US Attorney General if a death-row inmate could put off his execution indefinitely by requesting an all-you-can-eat buffet.
What would you order?
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 13th, 2007 at 12:11
Fugu sashimi.
November 13th, 2007 at 15:22
snails, buttered prawns with grapes, Tita Ying’s all-yolk mayo, pizza from New York or Italy, Ruth’s chicken pork adobo, aligue spaghetti, vanilla ice cream, civet coffee
November 14th, 2007 at 13:10
buttered lobster
lechon macau
hot fudge sundae
lasagna with bechamel sauce
ice cold coke
November 14th, 2007 at 14:25
fat milkfish cooked in coconut vinegar with ampalaya and iba,
seafood chowder,
grilled squid stuffed with tomatoes and onions,
avocado shake,
sugar-coated mango-tamarind sweets…
a hot home-made salabat for the finale.
November 14th, 2007 at 21:58
If I were to die tomorrow by lethal injection, I’d order strawberries, vanilla ice cream, a bucket of KFC original recipe chicken with tons of gravy, a whole slab of Adelina’s Christmas ham (with its evil brandy-laced sauce which by itself is to die for), the freshest oysters or talaba, sugpo, panga ng tuna, grilled salmon, lengua, and lamb stew, washed down with Heineken or good ol’ pale pilsen.
November 15th, 2007 at 05:44
two 500 grams toblerone. chicken skin. the fatty layer of lechon. now those would definitely lead to your death.
November 15th, 2007 at 20:01
Chad Douglas. And Yakult.
November 26th, 2007 at 15:17
1. Sinigang sa miso ng ulo ng Maya-Maya (with lots of mustard leaves).
2. Kare-Kare (thick and creamy sauce, with lots of Ox tail, no tripe).
3. 1 litre of sago-gulaman from Goldilocks.