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November 26, 2007

Another Ice Breaker: Last Meals

Continuing on with conversational icebreakers, a question that seems particularly relevent here in this season of consumption is What would your last meal be?

I've asked this question a bunch of times with no real background on the issue. For instance, we have wondered, you have to eat what's in the prison cafeteria? According to Wikipedia, in Texas, you do. It looks like most places don't go to a whole huge amount of trouble on your behalf, according to this account of cooking last meals in prison.

There have been a couple of books on the subject, including, recently, My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes, Last Suppers: If the World Ended Tomorrow, What Would Be Your Last Meal? and Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals from Death Row.

The first two books illustrate that this is a topic of conversation people really enjoy. It's a little more finite and less personal than, "what would you do if you learned you only had 24 hours to live?" but just as compelling.

(I have to say, even though I'm no Titanic buff, but Last Dinner On the Titanic Menus and Recipes From the Great Liner: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner sounds like an interesting basis for a theme party.)

So far, the best answer was cousin Shane's scheme, which was to cook his last meal himself a la the last meal in The Omnivore's Dilemma - one in which he prepared everything himself by hand, growing the veggies, killing the pig, etc.

My answer? I'd basically eat everything on the last page of the menu at Holmans -- deep friend mac 'n' cheese, jalapeno poppers, chicken strips, tater tots. This meal is perfect because after eating it, I'd feel like dying. My other choise would be antipasti and bruschetta and lasagne at Fratelli, but that might give me too much reason to live.

p.s. get ready for lots of blogging because I discovered the "scheduled" posting function in Moveable Type!

Posted by mary at November 26, 2007 2:48 PM

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