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The Queen recycles leftovers
Britain's Queen Elizabeth likes simple unspiced food and abhors waste to the extent of warming up leftovers, according to a bbc documentary to be broadcast next week. Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes spills the beans on life backstairs at Buckingham Palace, revealing details such as the traffic lights on the corridors that turn to red when a royal approaches so that junior footmen can disappear into a handy closet. Buckingham Palace yesterday denied the lights existed.Rhodes, who worked in the palace as a teenager, told the public broadcaster's Radio Times magazine that the queen likes her Martini stirred and not shaken, unlike James Bond. The programme, All the Queen's Cooks, to be screened on August 10, reveals the palace Sunday roast is recycled into cottage pies or rissoles. Rhodes said the royals eat very little. He said: "There was hardly anything on the plates. I wanted to say, 'Go on, get stuck in', but of course you couldn't speak. In fact, you weren't allowed to sneeze, cough, scratch your nose - nothing. I used to have a nightmare in which I farted in the dining room." The queen favours plain food, such as lamb cutlets or roast beef, and bread and butter pudding or ice cream to follow. She hates spicy food and tomato pips, because they get stuck in her teeth. Taking afternoon tea - which consists of scones, potted shrimps, thin cucumber sandwiches without the crusts and a special royal blend of tea - is one of her favourite pastimes. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-08-04 |
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