The Mentor is the first person to introduce me to the higher end meals I didn’t get to previously experience. He always combines a fantastic meal, at a fine culinary institution, with words of advice on life, love, happiness, and work. Whenever we bet on the stock market or a sports team you can always guarantee that a first-class meal is on the line. I have come to know his culinary tastes so well that one look at a menu and I can guess what he is ordering for dinner.
On this celebration day (If you live under a rock the Phillies won the World Series!!!) the Mentor is always there with an invitation to a fine meal to celebrate what only comes along every 25 years or so. Now all we need is for the Big Dog and the Little Dog to come back together as a team – then everything would be back in its place.
I almost didn’t even have to ask him what he wanted for his last meal but I had him tell me anyway. Here is his last meal in his own words….
Drink to start: a very cold belvedere up with olives. I am talking about a 1950s kind of drink that they serve at the best steakhouses in a big martini glass, with big olives (i.e. a man’s drink).
First Course: ½ of a Maine lobster, served cold with cocktail sauce and green mayonnaise on the side. Served with the appetizer, a glass of a Trocken Riesling. The simple rich cold taste of the sea paired with a steely, bone dry, crisp white.
Dinner: Braised veal Cheeks with fresh spinach pasta, veal reduction sauce, and peas.
Served with dinner: Any fine old Bordeaux of Pinot Noir. An obscure, rich, earthy
dish with a fine old wine to match. I have never met anyone who tried cheeks and didn’t
think they were out of this world.
Dessert : Floating Islands with crème anglaise. Totally ethereal, like eating a cloud. Perfect after a rich meal.
Served after dessert: XO Cognac. Feel the mist roll in. Time to turn in for the night.
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