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Eight course dinners and the G8

Cereals are displayed for sale in central market of Kabul, Afghan, June 2008. Due to high food prices majority of the people cannot afford regular daily meals. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
    NAIROBI
    Rising food and oil prices, Zimbabwe, AIDS and inflation are high on the agenda at the G8 summit which started on Monday July 7 in Hokkaido Japan. A focus of interest this year has been the lavish dinner menu the leaders enjoyed after deliberating some of the world’s problems on the first day. The organizers were kind enough to share the full eight course dinner menu with the press. Below is the full menu according to The Times







    Dinner

    Corn-stuffed caviar

    Smoked salmon and sea urchin "pain surprise" style

    Hot onion tart

    Winter lily bulb and summer savoury

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    Folding fan modelled tray decorated with bamboo grasses

    including

    Kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef "shabu-shabu", asparagus dressed with sesame cream

    Diced fatty flesh of tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce and Japanese herb "shiso"

    Boiled clam, tomato, "shiso" in jellied clear soup of clam

    Water shield and pickled conger dressed with vinegar soy sauce

    Boiled prawn with jellied tosazu vinegar

    Grilled eel rolled around burdock strip

    Sweet potato

    Fried and seasoned Goby with soy sauce and sugar

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    Hairy Crab "Kegani" bisque soup

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    Salt-grilled bighand thornyhead with vinegary water pepper sauce

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    Milk fed "shiranuka" lamb flavoured with aromatic herbs and mustard

    Roasted lamb and cepes and black truffle with emulsion sauce of lamb's stock and pine seed oil

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    Special cheese selection, lavender honey and caramelised nuts

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    G8 fantasy dessert

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    Coffee served with candied fruits and vegetables

    Wine list

    Le Reve grand cru champagne

    Japanese saki

    Corton Charlemagne 2005

    Chateau Latour burgundy

    Ridge California Monte Bello 1997

    Tokaji Essencia 1999 from Hungary

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