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This event will showcase readings by Natasha Solomons from her latest book Mr. Rosenblum’s List: An Epicurean Guide for the Aspiring Englishman.
"Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity and through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman.
Jack is compiling a list: a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of England. He knows that marmalade must be bought from Fortnum & Mason, he’s memorised every British monarch back to 913 A.D. and the highlight of his day is the BBC weather forecast. And he never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse.
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From the moment he disembarked at Harwich in 1937 he understood that assimilation was the key. But the war’s been over for eight years and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend in remains fraught with unexpected hurdles. Including his wife.
Sadie finds his obsession baffling. She doesn’t want to forget who they are or where they came from. She’d rather bake cakes to remember the people they left behind than worry about how to play tennis.
But Jack is convinced they can find a place to call home. In a final attempt to complete his list, he leads a reluctant Sadie deep into the English countryside. Here, in a land of woolly pigs, bluebells and jitterbug cider, they embark on an impossible task…."
Please indicate your address during the booking process in order to receive a pre-event copy of Mr. Rosenblum’s List.
Dress Code: English Eccentrics
The Menu
A full gastronomic feast over 5 courses. Concept-Chef Caroline Hobkinson aims to re-create a truly multi-sensory experience by evoking memories of Jack and Sadie’s journey in the book. Caroline's menu is a wonderfully poetic toast to personal journey, struggle and food assimilation.
- Secret food parcel
Rule number 1 Goodbye Heimat .Willkommen in England. Always. Speak. English.
- Wine: 2008 Riesling, Dr Loosen, Mosel
- Pheasant terrine haunted by pickled gherkins.
Rule number 2 Try to escape the past. Total Assimilation is the secret!
- Wine: 2008 Riesling, Frirtz, Gunderloch, Rheinhessen
- Coronation chicken with fresh curry leaves, almonds and crème fraîche.
Rule number 3 God Save the Queen. The freedom and liberty of England are now given to you - You know all about foreign food.
- Kartoffelsuppe with horseradish and dill.
Rule number 4 Don't look back. She couldn't understand this obsession to be English while she could feel that other life drifting further away, like steam from a kettle through an open window.
- A mysterious beast on a bed of red cabbage. The dorset woolly pig otherwise known as the Schweinehund- Braised pork knuckle with fennel and anchovy.
Rule number 5 Try to observe and follow the manners and customs and habits of this country, however absurd.
- Wine: 2008 Brauneberger Juffer Riesling Kabinett, Dirk Richter
- Baumkuchen ice-cream with salted shortbread.
Rule number 6 Never forget where you're coming from. Cook your way home to the ones you left behind.
He swallowed, trying not to cry, but a tear escaped and trickled down onto his strudel, making it taste salty.
Dessert wine (2006 Riesling Spatlese Graacher Himmelreich) and additional glasses/bottles of wine can be purchased at the venue, please bring cash on the evening.
Caroline's unusual background of living in both Berlin and London and her unique take on food, history and art is mesmerising. She uses food as performance and social commentary, drawing inspiration from the likes of Judy Chicago and the Futurist Cookbook. Trained at Central Saint Martin's, Caroline's past projects have included an underground restaurant in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall - where guests stepped into a time-warped space filled with commemorative memorabilia and the party for each evening was split in two, with each faction presented with a different menu and each course alluding to a different chapter of the Cold War. Upcoming projects also include a very Mad Hatter's Tea Party at the Barbican and BRoKen BiScuits, a gastro-geographical journey through Shoreditch. Caroline’s work has been featured by the New York Times and Die Zeit.
The Wine
- For this event, we are working with Red, White or Pink to provide a selection of German wines to match the food and the story
The Entertainment
- Readings from Mr Rosenblum's List
- Visuals by the Anti-Gravity Chamber of Curiosities
Other info
- Please arrive for 8.00PM, dinner will be served at 8.30PM
- Three glasses of wine are included with the food
- Additional glasses of wine are charged - please bring cash on the evening
- Please state any dietary restrictions in the booking and we will accommodate.
Number 68 Project does cater for vegetarians - Please specify any allergies or dietary requirements in the text box on the next page
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