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York’s Monkbar Hotel Serves Up “Pentathlon Pudding” To Celebrate The Olympics
Lord of the Rings! Best Western Monkbar Hotel second chef Eezie Ochieng with the pudding pentathlon. Photo by Malcolm Rouse
A York hotel is marking this year’s Beijing Olympics by serving up a spectacular “pudding pentathlon”.
The dish has been created by Best Western Monkbar Hotel’s head chef, Dave Asbury, and consists of five sweets from the five continents represented by the five Olympic rings.
The puddings lining up on the plate, which will be on offer throughout the two-week sporting spectacular, are:
- Europe - Bread and Butter Pudding
- Oceania - Peach Melba
- Asia - Banana Fritters
- America – Key lime Pie
- Africa – Taste of Africa (Tiramisu-style dessert layered with Kenyan coffee sponge and a pale chocolate mousse flavoured with Amarula, the liqueur from the famed Marula tree)
Best Western Monkbar Hotel Director June Nelsey said: “Every time there is a major sporting event we try and get involved in some way or another. With this year’s occasion being the Olympics we wanted something that encapsulated the spirit, hence a dessert that covers the five continents.
“Our head chef, Dave Asbury, has really pulled out the stops for this one and it even includes a Taste of Africa, a speciality of our second chef who comes from Kenya.
“Of course Europe had to be represented by Great Britain and what better classic than bread and butter pudding? If dessert making was ever to become an Olympic sport I’m sure Dave’s pudding pentathlon would win gold every time!”
August 6, 2008