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The Last Supper
A week of famous final meals.
For Christmas this year, I received a good number of cookbooks. My quarantine hobby has been cooking and my mother has been a wonderful cheerleader of that habit. When I got back to my apartment after Christmas, the recipe books were placed on top of the fridge and I’ve been working my way through them.
On the top of the stack lays the smallest and skinniest book: Last Suppers: A Collection of Final Meals Through the Years by Caroline West and Mark Latter. The book, a surprisingly casual read, is a selection of final meals gobbled up by famous politicians, aristocrats, entertainers and — of course — death row inmates. Some of the meals killed their consumers (some on purpose, some on accident), while others were completely unrelated — just the final meal before their natural death.
To spice up our home menu this week we decided to cook up some of these meals, trying our best to do it in good taste — in more ways that one.
Frank Sinatra: Grilled Cheese
Before Ol’ Blue Eyes died of a heart attack at the age of 82, he ate a grilled cheese sandwich.
Now, if you know me, you know I love the 2014 movie Chef. There’s a drool inducing moment in that film where the titular chef takes perfect care of the grilled cheese he is…
