April 16th 2009
Today was one of those days where you have so much going on you sometimes ask yourself how you will pull it off. Thanks to the great staff I have here at Forty Two at the Clinton Presidential Center we did it once again. We had a very successful Around the World Thursday.
Today we where in Mumbai India, and as most people know we do not cook Indian food on a normal day to day basis so it was some what of a challenge from the start. There is a lot of planning and thinking leading up to that day. But when that day comes we are ready to go all in for it.
So lets talk a little about how we come up with the menus. The menu writing process for the next Around the World Thursday starts pretty much the next day. So we finish one and start the next the following day. Cause it takes a lot of researching and studying to pull them off. We don’t always do things the traditional way. (If you have been to one you know that) We do one or two traditional dishes then we utilize a lot of the flavors and spices that are from that region and put a little twist to it. So that we show you how flavors of that region can go well with other items from different regions. So once we get to this point we write a rough outline of a menu. Most of the time this changes all the way up till about 4 days before the next Around the World Thursday. We play around with different things and if it is something that we are not 100% sure on we make the product and try it out. Taste it and see how everything plays out. If we like the dish then we are a go. Once the menu is good to go then we start to make sure we have all the food in house so that we can execute the menu. We use only the best produce, seafood and meat that is available.
So lets talk about the actual day. The day of Around the World Thursdays is always the best cause it is the thrill of all your work in the past month coming together. We finish the prep that is needed to be done and get all things in a row to do what we call our dance.
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