My Last Supper (file under Morbid Fascination)

I used to say all the time that I was going to die at a young age. No more do I think this way but I used to and as such this is a topic that I have considered more than once in my life.

I think, as with everything else, with age, and experience and hopefully a modicum of wisdom, this answer changes, at least in part.

So there are elements of the question that are relatively easy for me to answer and others that are not. The who would be there is relatively easy for me;

My beautiful, talented and intelligent fiancé would be there, of course. As would my family and hers. The guest list would also include Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Marley, Plato, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Nero, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven, Marco Pierre White, My friend Aarik (you know you’d want to be there), John F. Kennedy, Tesla, Walt Whitman, Einstein, Billy the Kid, Walt Disney, Henry Kissinger, Queen Elizabeth II, James Carvel, Edgar Allen Poe, Malcolm X, Bill Clinton, Jean – Michel Basquiat and Leonardo Da Vinci. Imagine the conversation at that party.

The music I would most like to hear would include special guest performances by Bach, specifically playing Air on the G, Mozart, Liszt, The Roots, Bob Marley, Dizzy Gillespie, Mos Def, Lauryn Hill, the reunion of Public Enemy, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

The place for me would be one of the world’s great (by me definition) libraries. Search Google images for the following which are in no particular order;

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont, Austria

New York Public Library, New York, USA

Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

Trinity College Library, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Vatican Library, Vatican City, Rome

Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, NY, USA

Just to name a few and believe me there are many, many more.

As to the who I would have prepare my dinner; Apicius, Bacchus, Careme, Escoffier, Eric Ripert and Raymond Blanc.
So, what would we have;

Foie gras, caviar, oysters, lobster and all manner of seafood. We would then have a roman truffle. We would then have a roast pick, hip of beef and either squab or pheasant. For dessert there would be an array of petit fours. As well there would be a delectable chocolate mouse and a beautiful cheese course. We would all be drinking to match the food we were eating but I would make sure to include a bottle of the best scotch I have ever had (Oceana in New York) , a Macallan from 1975. I also had a great blended scotch there which was quite rare but have never found it again. There would also be Veuve Clicquot flowing as would a Petrus ‘ 46 and believe it or not a cheap but great wine Cadidato (widely available at the LCBO).

That is my answer today, tomorrow some of it would be completely different, but for now, I think it stands.

What about you? What would your last meal be? Who would be there? Who would make it? What music would there be? Where would it be? Fun question.

Are you dreaming big and inspired?

A la prochaine

SDM