Posted on 01/23/2010 6:05:34 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Twenty or more not-so-dainty dishes would have been a typical evening repast for Louis XIV of France. To celebrate a show of the Sun King's art collection at the Palace of Versailles, one chef worked for a year to stage a recreation of a royal belt-buster.
FIRST SERVICE
Les Hors d’œuvre
Royal ballotine of pheasant
Petit pâté en croûte à la bourgeoise
Fresh deep-sea oysters
Lobster aspic chaud-froid
Les Potages
Beef madrilène with gold leaf spangles
Pureed chestnut soup with truffles from the Court of Italy
Bisque of shellfish from our coasts with a boletus infusion
Pumpkin soup, fresh from the royal vegetable garden
SECOND SERVICE
Les Rôts
Scallops with oyster liquor
Wild duck cromesquis à la Villeroy
Hare stew
Roast beef, carrots and smoked eel
Wild salmon au sel
THIRD SERVICE
Les Entremets
Green and fresh herb salad in gold leaf
Rice salad à la royale
Morel soufflé
Iced cheese
Hard-boiled egg
LAST SERVICE
Fruit
Edible candle
Hosting a historic meal for 40 is one thing, holding it in France’s most prized palace is another. 'We decided to recreate the Sun King’s Table at Versailles as a tribute to the cultural heritage that witnessed the birth of both champagne and luxury,’ said Richard Geoffroy, Chef de Cave – the chief winemaker – of the champagne house Dom Pérignon. 'This is the first time anything like this has happened, and it probably won’t happen again.’
Moët Hennessy, which owns Dom Pérignon, is sponsoring an exhibition at Versailles – 'Louis XIV: The Man and the King’ – showing more than 300 of the lavish works of art he commissioned during his 72-year reign, some of which have not been seen since the 1789 Revolution. As a testament to Louis’s appetite for luxury, Dom Pérignon
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Does that include the use of the golden toilet bowl?
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Hard-boiled egg
LOL!
Iced cheese? What’s dat?
Let them eat cake!
Love it!
how in the world did they eat a meal like that..do you just get a small portion..or just select one or two items from the service
Gives me heartburn just thinking about it!
I've had several French dinners like this, they last about six hours.
what’s with the hard boiled egg..seems a little odd with such other fancy items. Do they fancy it up or is it just an egg in a dish or an egg stand?
I don’t recall ever having one with egg. But you will notice that the salad come after the meal and before the dessert, this is to aid the digestion.
“I’ve had several French dinners like this, they last about six hours.”
Are you in the state department or something? Wow!
do you sit at the table for the whole six hours..or do you get up and go to a drawing room and then come back???
I can’t imagine sitting at a table for 6 hours eating all of that.
Longest meal I've served was a 5 course meal that lasted about 4 hours.
You have to turn to Escoffier for inspiration for one like that.
/johnny
...got beer?
Louis XIV had no aluminum foil, however :-)
They didn't line pans with it. ;)
/johnny
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