Monday 21 October 2013

Unreal Christmas Cookbook III

Victoria Beckham’s Food for the Stylish

We’re pretty sure this is unreal (it’s utterly unreal), just as we are generally convinced that anything where the word celebrity is used is the fantasy of some PR creative committee (do those last three words go together?). Perhaps like so much of Dallas (takes you back) and indeed celebrity culture (now those words are really incompatible) this is all a bad dream. But here goes. As the blurb promises, for just a few tens of thousands of pounds you can eat like multi-talented Victoria and other such multi-talented celebrities.

Multi-talented Victoria’s secret (hmm) is a disarmingly simple one: she employs a team of talented chefs (poor things, only one talent) who for example hand carve a variety of lettuce leaf, chicory and celery salads to her precise instructions, blending four drops of single estate Tuscan olive oil and one of rare vintage balsamic vinegar personally blessed by Pope Francis to dress them. A stylist then arranges each leaf according to a plan devised by the multi-talented Victoria herself! Start your meal with her fabulous pea soup, made with the freshest pea in Harvey Nicks and mineral water flown in from Switzerland, and end it with her witty take on the chocolate fudge sundae, a sun-warmed Revel garnished with half a cashew nut.


The beautifully photographed non-existent tome has images detailing how each dish is constructed, and is ideal for the hard of thinking, using less ink than one of multi-talented hubby David’s tattoos. This could completely change the way we think about food, or it could be so ridiculous that even the British public won’t go for it in spite of the planned TV series and the exclusive launch in Fatuous! Puerile! Vapid! and Brain-Dead! magazines this December. Like this book they don't exist either, but it's just a matter of time. 


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