Bond and Food (Page 1 of 3)

No mate...also being a fat Northerner I recommend you stick with curry and pies

Not sure about anyone else, but whenever I'm at a hotel, I always resist the urge to order "Green figs and yogurt, coffee, very black" for breakfast!  This line always goes through my head.

I have to agree about the Steak and potatoes, The food of the Gods. 
But what are these "Veggies" you mentioned. 

I threw that in just in case my wife is checking my posts!:))

Steak and potatoes you say.

I read somewhere that Bond was happiest living off cold roast beef and potato salad.  So you're almost there. 

And if you're a steak man, eat kobe beef at least once in your life.  Even if you have to fly to Japan to do so and take the airfare into account, it's worth it. 

Hello thesecretagent.  Sounds like my kind of shop.  Does kobe beef travel O.K?

We only get the kobe beef loins which gives the fillet and whole sirloin. It's vaccum packed and frozen. It's very tender but I find it a bit tasteless - a bit like veal, sort of tender and succulent but hardly any flavour. I imagine some of this is lost in the packing and freezing though, and would like to visit Japan sometime and try it.
As for caviar, I can take or leave the mid-range stuff, which is what I generally supply, but the very best usually considered Beluga fish landed in the Iranian ports of the Caspian Sea is quite exquisite, but only really when eaten with the right accompanniments such as blini pancakes and powdered hardboiled egg, or sourcream - and not as I have done - dipping pringles in it!

hello.

Mr. Pyrat, if you can "take or leave caviar", then leave it, and I'll eat your share.  What are friends for?

Secret Agent San, if you ever do come to japan to try kobe beef, look me up and I'll show you around.  Then I'll visit the UK and spend a month or two showing myself around your shop.

Pussy San.  Japan doesn't permit the export of kobe beef?  Never heard that.  Could be right.  I'll check with my wife.

I Don't think it's a problem to Kobe beef in the UK as I've seen it on a few cookery shows. Love TSA's idea of mixing caviar with Pringels " East meets West" kind of thing    I always thought Kobe beef was From the cows given Beer to drink as in YOLT, or was this another of Flemings halftrue facts  I'll must give it a try sometime.
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Ah yes, and officially you can't call it kobe beef once outside Japan. And that if it's female beef cattle, like much of American "kobe" beef it can't really be kobe beef either.

Tonight I'm eating Aberdeen Angus rump steak - it's far less confusing!

Thanks for the tip, Matt-san.  I have never been to Japan, but I have a son who lives in Osaka that I plan to visit very soon.  I will insist that he take me out for some Kobe beef!

Now Kobe Beef is something I would love to try.... it is apparently the best steak ever - and as I like mine, tender and bloody in the middle - it seems the perfect type of beef.

Oysters - one of my favourites - served freshly shucked - with either a splash of Tabasco, or horseradish - with a lovely cold beer...
Caviar - overpriced, BUT you can't feel those lovely salty little bubbles popping on your tongue with anything else...
Bollinger Champaign - now, I may sound really uncouth, but to me, most expensive Champaign’s are overpriced, and not all that. Perhaps the label gives you a little smug satisfaction - when one is watching polo, and sipping a bottle of Mumm, but for me, a good bottle of Cava will do just as well

Foie gras - never tried it - and to be honest, probably won’t. I don't like the sound of a goose being force fed to enlarge their livers.... but if they are changing the way they are rearing them, then fair enough.
Veal - same as above.... although there is free range veal now, where crating is not allowed,  so I could be persuaded

And we mustn't forget langouste - now, this has to be my favourite. I love any type of lobster.... and catching them fresh, off the coast of the San Blas Islands was a highlight I will never forget.

Oh, and the green veggies that seem so popular with Bond is Asparagus with hollandaise sauce.....can't say I've had them with hollandaise, but a dollop of mayonnaise will do just as nicely

All this talk of food is making me hungry..... shame I've got not one of the items above... ah well, black coffee and toast it is then