[MM-MALTS-L] Still here

[Jon Allen]

Hi Ron - and hello all, Good to see life in the list.  The Premium Malts bods at Diageo (Declaration of interest:  I occasionally write for them) are coming to the end of a programme of evenings which pair malts from their portfolio with different cuisines from around the globe. This supercedes the whisky dinners which they used to hold; the consensus (well, mine at any rate!) was that drinking whisky throughout a meal was too much of a good thing. These pairings are usually the work of the knowledgeable cook and writer Richard Whittington who has been working on malts and food matching for around nine years now. The menu for 'Malts Go to India' was the work of Jitin Joshi, the executive chef at Atul Kochhar's Michelin-starred and upmarket restaurant in London's Berkeley Square. (Highly recommend it - the set lunch is great value.) The food is, for want of a better description, modern Indian for European palates - the spicing is sure, deep and subtle, which gives a lot of scope for matching. Jitin is a superb chef who also loves malts. For this exercise he told me that he started with the malts and then adjusted the spicing of the recipes to make the most of the combination. Most malts were paired with two dishes; two with a single dish. The pairings were: Glen Elgin 12 with Onion Bhaji and Aloo Tikki; Cardhu 12 with Aloo Chaat and Macchi Chaat; Talisker 10 with Chicken Tikka and Ghorkha Chutney; Lagavulin 16 with Gelawati Kebab Samosa; frozen (ie straight from the freezer) Dalwhinnie 15 with Pistachio Mousse with Rum Raisins. I'm salivating at the memories! Some attendees are lucky enough to have been to quite a few of evenings and those I speak to regularly thought this was one of the most impressive. Ron, I can put a spare copy of the booklet from the evening in the post if you e-mail me your address. If anyone would like a fuller description of the dishes, post a request to the list and I'll type them up - but I'm dashing off to the Distil exhibition now.  Slainte Jon
Jon Allenjonallen1 at hotmail.com > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 23:15:31 +1200> From: st.peter at paradise.net.nz> Subject: Re: [MM-MALTS-L] Still here> To: ron at nooranismith.co.uk; mm-malts-l at grsnet.net> CC: > > Ron - I thought you'd never ask! Didn't you know that Dunlop have been> Makin Tyres for 120 years now.> > Slainte> Peter> _______________________________________________> MM-MALTS-L mailing list> MM-MALTS-L at grsnet.net> http://lists.grsnet.net/mailman/listinfo/mm-malts-l
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