From kangaroo steak and kidney pie to MI6 mince pies, a new cookbook will showcase the recipes available to royalty and VIPs around the world.
The 70 recipes in the Platinum Jubilee Cookbook celebrate the Queen’s 70th anniversary.
One of the highlights of diplomat and food writer Ameer Kotecha’s book is an exotic beef wellington with rendang, a rich and tender coconut stew, served to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at a gala in Kuala Lumpur in 2017.
Boozy: Whiskey bread and butter pudding
National staple: Jollof rice in Nigeria
With a twist: Wendang beef wellington
Greetings: Martini for the Queen’s “breakfast”
00-Heaven: festive MI6 “meat pies”
With a punch: kangaroo and kidney pie
Cambridge’s favourite: green fish curry
MI6 chief Richard Moore says the book’s mince pies are served to staff and visitors every Christmas. And when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Pakistan in 2019, the High Commissioner served a very well received green fish curry and they asked for a second night.
Prince Charles loved the bread and butter pudding served by the British Embassy in Washington in 2011, and William couldn’t get enough of “molten chocolate baby muffins” at the British High Commission in Nairobi in 2016.
The book’s foreword was written by Charles and Camilla, who claimed that during the Queen’s first reign British culinary prospects were “dreary” but “transformed” by the arrival of cuisines from other countries.
“Food plays an important role in all royal visits, offering the opportunity to enjoy the culinary heritage of the host country while also sharing the best of British cuisine,” they write. The cookbook comes out on Thursday.
Source: Daily Mail
