[penelopesire]

Here is the menu at the UN World Hunger Summit this past week:

Menus at food summit feature Italian specialties The luncheon menus for the U.N. Food and Agriculture summit in Rome feature Italian specialties:

Tuesday:
Vol-au-vent (pastry puffs) with corn and mozzarella
Pasta with a sauce of pumpkin and shrimp in cream
Veal rolls with cherry tomatoes and basil
Spinach Roman-style
Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream
White wine from Orvieto

Wednesday:
Cheese mousse
Pasta with vegetables and cherry tomatoes
Chopped beef
Butter beans
Pineapple with ice cream
Cabernet

Thursday:
Zucchini pie
Parmesan Risotto
Ragout of veal with legumes
Sauteed potatoes
Lemon mousse with raspberry sauce.
Pinot Grigio

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[SandRat]

MREs are too good for them!

[antonia]

Times Newspapers June 4, 2008 Leaders at UN Food Summit Tone Down Menu over Fears of Hypocrisy
	Six years ago, at another Food and Agriculture Organisation summit in Rome, The Times got hold of the menu for the sumptuous opening day lunch. Its publication caused a scandal. The 2002 summit had set itself the target of halving the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. It began by feeding the heads of state lobster and foie gras and letting them wash it all down with an array of fine wines. Of the world's wealthier nations, only Italy, the host, and Spain, the holder of the EU presidency, sent heads of state or government. The British sent Alun Michael, then Minister for Rural Affairs. By contrast, dozens of presidents, prime ministers and even monarchs arrived from the developing world. They included President Mbeki of South Africa and, of course, Robert Mugabe.
(Philippe Wojazer/Reuters) Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, jokes with Food and Agriculture Organisation Director General Jacques Diouf before sitting dow to lunch in Rome
Perhaps mindful of accusations of hypocrisy levelled at them six years ago, world leaders tightened their belts this year and were offered a far more modest menu of pasta, mozzarella, spinach and sweetcorn at the equivalent fixture. " It does not look good if leaders discussing global starvation are seen to be dining lavishly," an FAO official said. "At the last summit in 2002 we did not give enough thought to the menu and were open - unfairly, in our view - to the charge of hypocrisy." 2002 Menu Foie gras and toast with kiwi fruit Lobster in vinaigrette Fillet of goose with olives Seasonal vegetables Compote of fruit with vanilla Vins multiple fine wines 2008 Menu Vol au vent with sweetcorn and mozzarella Pasta with cream of pumpkin and shrimps Veal olives with cherry tomatoes and basil Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream Vin Orvieto Classico Poggio Calvelli 2005
And this just in: Western leaders expressed outrage yesterday as Robert Mugabe flew into Rome in defiance of an EU travel ban to attend a United Nations world food summit while millions of people are starving under his brutal rule in Zimbabwe