This was but one of a number of 'training' dinners the team will do as they learn to work together and develop what will eventually become the menu for their chef olympics bid. I assume their final menu will be quite different from the one I experienced Sunday evening.
As for the wines, these were chosen by the local chapter of the Chaine des Rotisseurs - not the chefs. For the olympics, they will select their own wines - but they are an American team and it would seem appropriate to me for them to also select American wines to high-light that national industry as others do.
Richard
__________________
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
|