What Happens When Second Graders Are Treated to a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal?

NYT mag ^ | 10/10/14 | JEFFREY BLITZ

[Baynative]

One Saturday afternoon last month, six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn got a head start on the fine-dining life when they visited the acclaimed French restaurant Daniel. There, five waiters presented them with a seven-course tasting menu (after the trio of canapés and an amuse-bouche, naturellement). The meal was overseen by the star chef and eponym himself, Daniel Boulud, whose goal was, he says, “for the children to really discover a lot of flavor, a lot of layers, a lot of texture.”

[Baynative]

This is a delightful short video of kids being kids and portraying all the innocence that the world has not yet torn from their souls. I posted it because it offers a moment of respite from ISIS, Ebola and Obama.

[goldstategop]

Gourmet food for children?

If a world famous sous chef treats them to the delights of a seven course meal, whom am I to object?

They look happy enough.

[Wisconsinlady]

I would only want to know if any taxpayer money paid for this.

[GeronL]

I hope they had parents with them.

[SoothingDave]

Who

[Baynative]

Did you by chance watch the video? The chef invited them.

[Red Badger]

What? No mac ‘n cheese?.......

[goldstategop]

Smoked Paprika Cured Hamachi (the “most-foreign thing for them,” Boulud says), Crispy Japanese Snapper (“which they loved to see”) and Wagyu Beef Rib-Eye (“a big success”)

At Daniel’s - an acclaimed French restaurant in New York. All sounds mouth watering. Washed down with non-alcoholic cocktail.

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder how many of them actually tasted the peas and broccoli...........

[TurboZamboni]

Now they know what it’s like to be senators.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Did you by chance watch the video? The chef invited them.

no no no - you obviously don't know how it works now on FR - most no longer read stories or watches videos, they merely do drive by snipes and snarks based on a headline or single picture.

[goldstategop]

Its not every day your second graders get to dine at a very elegant restaurant.

$200 is nothing at Daniel.

[GeronL]

rib-eye tastes great but it doesn’t have to cost $200 or whatever

[Wisconsinlady]

I read the article, but did not watch the video. Thanks for the info that the chef treated them to the meal.

[The_Media_never_lie]

If Obola and the wookie can eat it, they should too!

[surrey]

I have 2 grandchildren in the second grade. My grand daughter might give some of it a try but my grandson.....NEVER.

[goldstategop]

Restaurants are like that are another level of experience.

There’s the Food Network/Cooking Channel.

Puts “Chopped” and “Beat Bobby Flay” to shame. Its all about great flavors.

[Cowboy Bob]

I notice they didn’t invite any Asian kids to participate. I’d say there was some discrimination going on here.

[WKUHilltopper]

That chef didn’t make that. Someone else made it happen.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Personally, I think something like this is wasted on second graders but that is just my opinion and, as long as no taxpayer money was spent, its their business.