It looks like the days of ancient Rome, but it couldn’t have existence back then. You think of slaves delivering it on a silver or golden platter. It looks sculpturesque with eyes and a mouth. But wait a minute! It’s a watermelon. Now we’re thinking of Arkansas and moonlight and magnolia, not ancient Rome. So that shows the ingenuity of the chefs in the King’s Court Restaurant on deck 7 of the Queen Mary 2. At dinner many nights the passengers were treated to food sculptures in the fruit section just to whet your appetite and discover possibilities we hadn’t thought of when it comes to something as pleb as watermelon. Here a photo really is worth a thousand words.
AuthorThe Mid Summer Night's Chef visited all sorts of restaurants during its tour of Germany, Luxembourg, and Belgium last summer. Read here his reviews of various restaurants abroad as well as in the US. Archives
August 2016
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