As we learn in the short story, 'From a View to a Kill', Bond normally choses one of several restaurants for lunch: the Véfour, the Caneton, Lucas-Carton or the Cochon d'Or.
Category: Recipes
A taste of Cortina: manzo brasato
Having touched on the subject of what the cast and crew ate while making the James Bond films with a post on the food served up during the filming of the car chase sequence in Thunderball, I thought I'd try to find out more about the catering for the other films.
Sorbet à la Champagne
He may be in Dr No's clutches, but James Bond is impressed with the menu provided by his captor at Crab Key in the novel of Dr No
Nut cutlets
A visit to Shrublands health farm in Thunderball proves to be something of an culinary eye-opener for James Bond. Foregoing his usual steaks, fried fish, and rich sauces, Bond is introduced to such treats as dandelion tea, potassium broth and 'unmalted slippery elm'.
The food of Double or Nothing – and a recipe for drunken chicken
No James Bond novel is complete without a menu's worth of food descriptions, and Kim's Sherwood's first entry in the 'Double O' trilogy, which follows the adventures of Bond's fellow double-O agents, is no exception.
Cuisses de grenouilles provençales
A recent holiday in France allowed me to prepare another dish from the menu of Café Martinique, as featured in Thunderball: cuisses de grenouilles provençales, or frogs' legs cooked in the Provence style
Truite Grenobloise
As part of the celebrations marking 60 years of the James Bond films, Christie's and Eon Productions will be hosting an online auction, which runs between 15th September and 5th October.
Syrniki
Anthony Horowitz's third and final James Bond novel, With a Mind to Kill, takes our hero to Russia. This exciting, page-turner of a novel strips away much of the glamour we normally associate with Bond, and this includes the food,
Grilled fish
James Bond's dinner with former British secret agent Madame Sixtine in Anthony Horowitz's second Bond novel, Forever and a Day, is a simple affair: grilled fish, salad, cheese and bread, all washed down with a bottle of the finest Puligny-Montrachet.
Caesar salad
Dinner with the mysterious Jeopardy Lane at the Plaza Hotel in New York in Trigger Mortis comprises Caesar salad and grilled sole. Bond orders for both of them and decides to keep the meal simple, eschewing the dishes pretentiously named in French that are liable to be overcooked.