{"id":1027,"date":"2008-07-09T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2008-07-09T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T12:56:28","slug":"a-shame-the-way-the-poor-africans-are-starvingsighsuch-a-shame-i-hope-we-can-help-them-in-some-way-now-what-will-it-be-the-supreme-of-chicken-with-stuffed-thigh-nuts-and-orange-savoury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A shame, the way the poor Africans are starving&#8230;[<i>sigh<\/i>]&#8230;such a shame. I hope we can help them in some way. Now, what will it be: The supreme of chicken with stuffed thigh, nuts and orange savoury and beetroot foam, or will I have the milk-fed lamb flavored with herbs and mustard, and roast lamb with cepes and black truffle? Does a Chambolle-Musigny go with lamb? And what <i>are<\/i> we going to do about the poor starving Africans?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lamblarge.jpg\"  title=\"\u201cMaybe I can share my milk-fed lamb with the Africans, mommy!\u201d\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lamblarge.jpg\" title=\"\u201cMaybe I can share my milk-fed lamb with the Africans, mommy!\u201d\" alt=\"\u201cMaybe I can share my milk-fed lamb with the Africans, mommy!\u201d\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1032909\/Summit-thats-hard-swallow--world-leaders-enjoy-18-course-banquet-discuss-solve-global-food-crisis.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/07\/08\/world-leaders-eat-18-cour_n_111372.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>, world leaders, meeting in Japan on Monday to solve the global food crisis, stuffed themselves stupid at an <em>18-course banquet<\/em>, below, specially prepared for the meeting, calling down, no doubt inaudible, worldwide outrage. (<a href=\"http:\/\/openthread.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/7\/8\/235958\/9318\/651\/548539\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Meanwhile back at the Vomitorium&#8221;<\/a> stabbed <em>The Daily Kos<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/706d5fe4-4c71-11dd-96bb-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=a955630e-3603-11dc-ad42-0000779fd2ac.html\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Crumbs from the rich nations\u2019 table&#8221;<\/a> dripped the capitalism-giddy, sherbert-toned <em>Financial Times<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/article-1032909-01e123a300000578-0_468x276_popup.jpg\"  title=\"No irony, here\u2026\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/article-1032909-01e123a300000578-0_468x276_popup.jpg\" title=\"No irony, here\u2026\" alt=\"No irony, here\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dining on such unpronounceables as Boiled Prawn with Tosazu Vinegar Jelly, Chaud-Froid of Kegani Crab, and Grilled Bighand Thornyhead Fish with Pepper Sauce\u2014all prepared by Japanese Michelin Star chef Katsuhiro Nakamura and washed down with a fine assortment of wines and sakes\u2014the G8 leaders congregating at the ultra-exclusive Windsor Hotel packed their stomachs, while, somewhere on Earth, a human being died of hunger every 3.6 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Telegraph<\/em>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dominic Nutt, of the charity Save the Children, did not approve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is deeply hypocritical that they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford a decent meal,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If the G8 wants to betray the hopes of a generation of children, it is going the right way about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some attendees at the summit responded through their press secretaries: &#8220;BELLLLCCCH!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK&#8217;s Daily Telegraph, via The Huffington Post, world leaders, meeting in Japan on Monday to solve the global food crisis, stuffed themselves stupid at an 18-course banquet, below, specially prepared for the meeting, calling down, no doubt inaudible, worldwide outrage. (&#8220;Meanwhile back at the Vomitorium&#8221; stabbed The Daily Kos. &#8220;Crumbs from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,46,27,31,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}