Last meal

Fellow food travelers and food lovers!
Here's a discussion question to kick things off for our group... imagine it's your last meal ever. You can have anything you want and travel anywhere in the world for it. What would it be?

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Permalink Reply by Rachel Cotterill on July 27, 2009 at 10:51am

Wow, tough question. I think I would have to go for something in South India, because I'm a long-time fan of south Indian restaurants but I've yet to make it to India to experience the real thing.

Permalink Reply by Mary Richardson on July 27, 2009 at 5:27pm

Rachel,
I also have not visited South India, but I am also a fan of the cuisine!

Okay, I love food all over the world, but I have to say my last supper would be a plate of Chilaquiles from a beach side restaurant in San Diego and a large spicy bloody Mary. I guess it would be more like a last brunch...

Permalink Reply by Neva Peykov on July 30, 2009 at 9:46am

Hm... This is a difficult one as I'll have to have a number of meals :))) They will all be Mediterranean though. So, I will be in Provence, in an 18th century stone house with sky blue shutters on the windows, overlooking the vineyards. I will have a fresh lettuce, tomato, cucumber, green peppers aand olives salad, spiced up with basil and olive oil, little old cheese at the top. Then a tomato soup with croutons with garlic. Then zucchini with yogurt/garlic sauce; fried eggplants and red peppers in tomato/parsley sauce. Then the main dish would be chicken baked with young potatoes in their skin, spiced up with black pepper and a spoon of wine. Fish, naturally, bought in the morning straight from the boats, fresh and fried for the small ones. The bigger fish baked in a ceramic pot under a lid with garlic and parsley in tomato sauce. Dessert - creme brule, fresh fruits with yogurt and honey, pastry with vanilla and champagne creme. Finally, the inevitable cheese bites with the red wine. :))) All this comes straight from the garden of course, no supermarket food!

Permalink Reply by As We Travel on January 21, 2010 at 1:45pm

If I knew it was my last meal, I'd either have lost my appetite, or I'd enjoy every single bite.. you never know until it happens, but I hope it'd be the last one.

(If so, I'd like any of grandma's food ;P she's the best cook there is..!)

Permalink Reply by Nancie M on May 3, 2010 at 9:47pm

I would want fresh Nova Scotia lobster, and lots of it!!

Permalink Reply by Alison Cornford-Matheson on May 4, 2010 at 4:07am

Oh I second that! It's the thing I miss the most from home. Lobster here in Brussels is expensive and not as good. Are you from NS Nancie?

Permalink Reply by Nancie M on May 4, 2010 at 2:48pm

Hi Alison,

Yes, I'm from Halifax. It will always be home :)

Permalink Reply by Amber Sessions on June 11, 2010 at 12:11am

I would have sushi from my favourite little place in Vancouver. Why? Because I love it (especially fresh uni) and because sushi is a meal that you can really draw out thus putting off the imminent death I assume is coming if it's my last meal ever. Make sense?

Permalink Reply by Maria G on June 16, 2010 at 4:14pm

Capetown, South Africa. I would go to several of the ethnic restaurants on and around Long Street(Ethiopian, Turkish, vegan, Africa, South African, Cape Malay) and put entrees from each of them on to my dinner plate.

Permalink Reply by barbara kingstone on July 1, 2010 at 6:15am

Easy since I've though about this for a very long time. Bread.. Could be croissants or baquette, but it has to be the best. Ditto for coffee and finally black caviar. I don't ask for much but it has to be good.

Permalink Reply by IEatMyPigeon on August 13, 2010 at 3:28am

I'm torn between a sushi dinner, a BBQ/mashed potatoes extravaganza, or a plate of my mother's gnocchi al ragu. It's like Sophie's Choice, except I've got three kids and they're all food.

Permalink Reply by Nova Walsh on August 20, 2010 at 12:22am

What a question! I guess it would have to be a big plate of my grandmother's chicken and dumplings with fresh corn and sliced tomatoes, and a perfectly roasted chicken. There might be better meals out there, but I think I'd like to go out with one last nod towards my family who gave me this crazy food gene.

And after reading Mary Richardson's comment, which included a last drink, I want to add the best bottle of Chardonnay on the planet (assuming I had the resources and connections to get it).