Hey everyone,

Sorry I’ve been MIA.  I have been insanely busy with work and I’m going on vacation so life has been hard to update.  I just came across this, though I’m a bit behind.

“Bosses at Kenilworth Castle decided to reproduce the food-fest – originally served at the castle by Sir Robert Dudley in 1575 – as part of their summer celebrations.

The meal took 700 man-hours to research and create in authentic detail and was presented on a massive banquet table dressed with towering sugar sculptures.

Desserts on offer to luck members of the public included gold gilded jelly, custard tarts, jams and candies — the no so lucky ones got dried sturgeon stomach and pigs bladder skins which were also on the menu.

Harry Parr of Bompas & Parr, who prepared the banquet, said: “Creating this banquet was a mighty technical and logistical challenge,”

“We used modern architectural technology to help us, designing and fabricating the sugar moulds using the same techniques that architects use to design buildings.

“The dishes, however, were all down to good old fashioned cooking, and as well as taking inspiration from the garden we used authentic, Elizabethan recipes from tasty tansies to flowery flummeries.”

From http://newslite.tv/2010/06/29/historic-300dish-dessert-banqu.html