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For Your Eyes Only: Meal and Wine on Memorable Quotes Page

wwielguswwielgus
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Thank you to whoever quoted the meal Bond and Kristatos ordered:

Bond: I'll have the Preveza prawns, Savara salad and Bourdetto.
Kristatos: Oh, an excellent choice, I'll have the same. May I suggest a white Robolo wine from Caponia, my home place.
Bond: Well, if you'll forgive me, I find that a little too scented for my palate. I prefer the Theotaki Aspero

There is a slight mistake, the wine would be from Cephalonia (Kefalonia) Aspro means "white" and the Theotoky vineyard still boasts that Bond drinks their wine.
http://www.theotoky.com

Now can someone tell me what is in a "Savara Salad"?

Comments

  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
    Posts: 1,138
    You might get some answers in the James Bond Questions thread.
  • Klaus_GSectionKlaus_GSection
    Posts: 104
    Savara salad doesn't exist according to Google. Is that what it's called even. Anyone on this site Greek perchance?
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    I asked for a Waldorf salad once but they didn't have any Waldorf's ! :D
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27psi9_fawlty-towers-s02e03-waldorf-salad_shortfilms
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Could it be the spinach salad from Savalas Steak House in Canada?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,275
    Interesting - much food for thought here!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    There is no such thing as too many FYEO threads.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,275
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    There is no such thing as too many FYEO threads.

    True, it is Roger Moore's best Bond due to its fidelity to the works of Ian Fleming.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Savara is a pharmaceutical company in Texas. Could it be a joke?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,275
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    Savara is a pharmaceutical company in Texas. Could it be a joke?

    It's an interesting detail that it doesn't appear to exist; it's anyone's guess what it all means!
  • Douglas_FurtriesDouglas_Furtries UK
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    Checked the script and it's savara there, but, just as a thought, script writers do make mistakes, and, looking carefully at the salad in question, I think maybe the writer did a sounds like and what he meant was a sapphira salad, which is a mixed salad topped with samphire. Samphire is a lot like thin asparagus whatsits, and, looking at the plates, I think there's reasonable grounds for seeing samphire twigs on those plates.
    Samphire is also a coastal plant, which would keep with the seafood theme for the other two dishes.

    Slightly more worrying is bourdetto is explicitly a tomato sauce dish, and their fish looks like it's served on a bed of cold oatmeal...

    I can't prove the sapphira thing, but it feels like it only takes a minor thingy (the writer hearing sapphira as savara) to get a working solution.

    Interested in thinks, even if the thread is old...
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