Seventh course: Veal filet mignon
the food was, as it should be, a gratifying backdrop
to serious conversation. Let us turn, now, to our state
dinner, albeit one of the imagination. It might provide
great inspiration for a fundraiser or, better still, this article
might make its way to the White House, enabling its
eight courses to come alive.
David Burke's fantasy state dinner, which he created at
my request, rocks through all eight courses, all of them
refined with a robust undercurrent. Burke's fare tastes
good. He does not hesitate to flex culinary muscle with
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