5/31/2023 0 Comments Jubilee cookbook![]() ![]() ![]() Though the banquet was held in England and both Rosemary Hume and the Queen were mostly British, the dish was given a French name because in that era, all fancy food had to sound French. (PRACHAYA ROEKDEETHAWEESAB /SHUTTERSTOCK) King Charles’s Coronation will take place on May 6. The original Coronation Chicken was invented in 1953 by Rosemary Hume and her students at the Le Cordon Bleu school in London, to be served at a banquet for dignitaries who had come to London to attend the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. I loved the irony (“a momentous event in which about 20 of us in India are deeply invested”) and I remembered the dish well because I had the mixed fortune (misfortune?) to go to a (minor) English public school where they served Coronation Chicken. ![]() “As King Charles’s Coronation approaches - a momentous event in which about 20 of us in India are deeply invested - could you consider writing on Coronation Chicken and what sort of dish would need to be invented to reflect the multicultural Britain of 2023?” For King Charles’s Coronation, the Palace has gone with the Coronation Quiche containing milk, double cream, cheddar cheese, spinach and broad beans. ![]() Last month, my friend, Ashok Malik, the writer and think-tanker (is that even a word?) messaged me with an idea for Rude Food. ![]()
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