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Highlights: An Epicurean Guide for the Aspiring Englishman – April 9, 2010 (London, UK)

by Number 68 Project on January 17, 2011 in Past Events

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Date: Friday, April 9, 2010 at 8:00pm
Place: Secret Dalston Location
Dress Code: English Eccentric

Art
This event showcased readings by Natasha Solomons from her latest book Mr. Rosenblum’s List.

Food
Concept-Chef Caroline Hobkinson re-created a five course multi-sensory experience by evoking memories of Jack and Sadie’s journey in the book. Caroline’s menu is a wonderfully poetic toast to personal journey, struggle and food assimilation.

Caroline’s life in both Berlin and London has influenced her unique take on food, history and art. She uses food as performance and social commentary, drawing inspiration from the likes of Judy Chicago and the Futurist Cookbook. Trained at Central Saint Martin’s, one of Caroline’s past projects includes an underground restaurant in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Upcoming projects also include a very Mad Hatter’s Tea Party at the Barbican and BRoKen BiScuits, a gastro-geographical journey through Shoreditch. Caroline’s work has been featured by the New York Times and Die Zeit.

Drink
For this event, we worked with Red, White or Pink to provide a selection of German wines to match the food and the story.

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Natasha Solomons

by Number 68 Project on January 6, 2011 in Past Events

An excerpt from Mr. Rosenblum’s List:

Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity and through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman.

Jack is compiling a list: a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of England. He knows that marmalade must be bought from Fortnum & Mason, he’s memorised every British monarch back to 913 A.D. and the highlight of his day is the BBC weather forecast. And he never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse.

From the moment he disembarked at Harwich in 1937 he understood that assimilation was the key. But the war’s been over for eight years and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend in remains fraught with unexpected hurdles. Including his wife.

Sadie finds his obsession baffling. She doesn’t want to forget who they are or where they came from. She’d rather bake cakes to remember the people they left behind than worry about how to play tennis.

But Jack is convinced they can find a place to call home. In a final attempt to complete his list, he leads a reluctant Sadie deep into the English countryside. Here, in a land of woolly pigs, bluebells and jitterbug cider, they embark on an impossible task….

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