If you’re hiding in a rock somewhere and just came out and missed out on the news, U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Barack Obama is quite popular and stands for a lot of good things. He would probably garner noteworthy accomplishments during his tenure but quite a few think that his recent exploits are not notable enough to merit the award. A Peace Prize barely a year into his presidency is quite something. In 2007 former Vice President Al Gore received a Peace Prize, a staggering achievement indeed. But he had worked a lot with climate change and at that point definitely deserves it. Still, the Nobel Prize Dinner is something else so let’s leave Obama alone and see what happens.
Back to the more delicious side; the Nobel Prize Dinner. Here are some interesting facts about the dinner. There were 23,000 flowers coming from San Remo, Italy. Alfred Nobel, to whom the award was named for, lived there during the twilight years of his life. There were 1300 guests in the ceremony, compared to the 113 male guests during the first Nobel Prize dinner in 1901.
The Nobel Prize Dinner required 20 chefs and 200 waiters working to lay more than 60 tables at the royal banquet inside the Blue Room of Stockholm City Hall. The Hall itself was festively highlighted with over 7,000 pieces of porcelain, over 5,000 glasses and at least 10,000 pieces of silverware. The Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall was originally intended to be painted blue, but the architect decided not to when he saw the gorgeous red brick walls. Although he did not cover the brick with blue plaster, he kept the name Blue Hall since it was on all the plans of the structure. The Blue Hall is the City Hall’s most important room, and the Nobel Prize dinner happens here on December 10 every year.
All of the guests were served in within nine minutes and the food therefore was still piping hot. The Nobel Prize Dinner is by tradition a sit-down three course dinner. The traditional dinner, began in 1901, was initially a six-course one but for the past 11 years, the Nobel Prize Dinner has been a three-course affair.
The 2009 Nobel Prize Dinner Menu (for Stockholm) included a mouth-watering Lobster consommé (clear soup made from richly flavoured stock) with shellfish tartare (finely chopped raw fish with seasonings and sauces) and lobster with Kalix bleak roe. There’s an extremely scrumptious Truffle-stuffed quail with parsley root garnishing and Brussels sprouts and port wine gravy. A lemon and fresh cheese mousse (creamy dessert characteristically made from egg and cream )with sea-buckthorn sorbet (frozen dessert made from sweetened water flavored with iced fruit )could only be delicious.
The vins included the following: Jacquart Brut Millesime 2002, Magnum, Chateau la Dominique 2001, Saint Emilion Grand Cru Classe, Tschida ba Seewinkel 2006, Neusiedlersee.
This article was written by Alexis.
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