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I couldn't find any other discussions on this, so I though to post one. In the novels, and some of the early films, CR being an exception, Bond enjoys a good meal. I thought members could post some of their favorite meals Bond has had or meals of theirs he's inspired.
One of the things I liked about Solo are all the descriptions Boys gives about Bond's meals, including his choices of beer, alcohol, coffee and cigarettes. My favorite from that novel is his birthday dinner of rare fillet of beer with pommes dauphinoises and Chateau Batailley 1959.
What are some of your favorites?
One of the things I liked about Solo are all the descriptions Boys gives about Bond's meals, including his choices of beer, alcohol, coffee and cigarettes. My favorite from that novel is his birthday dinner of rare fillet of beer with pommes dauphinoises and Chateau Batailley 1959.
What are some of your favorites?
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Yeah, that was one of my babies.
I tried filet of beer once, but it left me flat.
I rather like Kemal Khan popping the sheep's eye into his mouth, pretty as you please. Given that Louis Jourdan was French, that eye may well have been real. The French will eat or screw dam' near anything.
By far the coolest bit of DAF
But what cuisine they made! That said, Paris is filled with tourist trap where people eat the most disgusting thing and think it's high gastronomy because they eat in Paris.
On a side note, is it me or did the Bond of the novels seem to particularly enjoy French cuisine? His tastes were very continental anyway, down to a dislike of tea (something I'd love to see in a Bond movie, by the way).
a) It's in french (I don't think there has been an english tranlastion yet)
b) It has some very big mistakes in it (a scene that happens in FRWL (movie) is given to DAF (movie), and the crackers M dismisses in OHMSS are not of the kind you serve before a meal)
c) The layout makes it very difficult to read.
But still, it's an interesting book. Here it is :
Another great Bond dinner scene there - how could I have forgotten that one?! It was a made-up eye using other foodstuffs by the way. I remember reading that somewhere. And you are right bout the French - they even catch small birds in nets and cook them alive. They're not normal, they're French, as Alan Partridge might say.
Bond seemed to enjoy most of the cuisines he sampled, although he wasn't wild about Indian (Auric's "curried mess"), Turkish and Japanese. He doted more on Western chow.
Yeah. I figured that eyeball was actually made of spun sugar or some such.
And Partridge may well evince disgust at somebody eating small birds. ;)
A bit of soufflé that, as Khan reminded, "can't wait."
What always struck me is how continental he seems to be when it comes to food and drinks: he eats sole meunière, drinks French wines, coffee of course (and has contempt for tea), I believe he has French sausages in OHMSS... Although he does like Cadbury's chocolates and English breakfast, overall he seems to enjoy more French and European cuisine. Something to do with rationing in the UK when the first novels were published? That and the exoticism and the reputation of French cuisine might have played a role in his tastes. Of course Fleming hated tea and passed it on to his character. Again, Delenda Carthago: I want to see this dislike of tea featured in a Bond movie.
Throughout most of the modern era, and certainly during the middle of the 20th century, French cuisine was considered the acme of the culinary world. It's not surprising that Bond, a connoisseur of the finer things in life, would favor French food and drink, although, let it be said, Bond found American vermouth to be "the best he ever tasted."
I think he ate some of the souffle starter, didn't he?
I need to watch it again. Something else struck me: wouldn't Khamal Khan be vegetarian, being Indian?
If he's Hindu then he wouldn't be allowed to eat beef. Sheep's head and eyeballs is clearly OK though :-)
Well, guess what ?
It does !
In fact, what Bond was eating was "Bresaola", which is a sort of pastrami (that is, the bovine equivalent of cured ham). Of course, we can assume that Fleming heard about it with the american pronunciation instead of the correct italian one, and put the phonetic equivalent in the novel, thus starting a mystery that has at least been resolved. More information here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresaola
Yes, Bond does eat some of the souffle, though not any of the dinner that follows it. And Kamal Khan is an exiled Afghan Prince - he's not Indian at all, but from Afghanistan.
Another example comes from SF, but I have a problem with how this film missed the opportunity to show a last meal scene with Bond, M, and Kinkade. Having had such a scene with Bond making quiche would have helped the audience see more of close relationship before the sweat, excuse me, tears showed. But SF did a good job taking time to show things like when Bond and M look solemnly at the lodge and sigh together. Anyway, back to food. I guess the quiche scene from AVTAK was good but mainly because of the score. Quiche isn't that hard to make. In a modern Bond movie, say if Bond 24 is modernism-styled like QOS was, Bond could have a dish that would make the audience feel uncool if they don't eat the same stuff. I don't think that's happened yet.
The TMWTGG and DN dinner scenes - very good additions to this thread - how could I forget those ones! Brilliant, @FoxRox. I'm in full agreement.
Let's see what NickNack has done for us. Ah! Mushrooms.
:)
Although, I have the feeling the dialogue in that classic scene in the reason people remember it.
I love the dinner passages in Fleming's novels. But the one that always stands out is Bond dinner in Miami, feasting on crabs. I always find myself salivating at that.
Yes, it's largely the excellent dialogue that makes the dinner scene in TMWTGG - James Bond's very raison d'etre is right there in his speech to Scaramanga. I happen to consider this the finest speech not to have come from any of the Bond novels or stories by Ian Fleming in any of the Bond films as it encapsulates the character so very well. I don't say that lightly, either.
Found in the mighty database TV Tropes:
I think it's quite funny.