Neither caviar nor foie gras at the 77th Golden Globes dinner. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the annual event, served a completely vegan dinner at the Beverly Hilton, a prestigious Beverly Hills hotel, and did so to "send a signal" on the impact of animal products on climate changes. The menu did not include a vegan alternative, as usually happens: everyone, including omnivores, was offered the entire meal without animal derivatives. "During the holidays, we took some time to reflect on the past year and started thinking about the new one and the decade to come," said Lorenzo Soria, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on a Facebook post. "The climate crisis is impossible to ignore and after talking to colleagues and friends, we felt encouraged to do better."
The menu
Dinner started with one beetroot soup cold golden, seasoned with pistachios and amaranth at zero kilometers. The main course was a vegan mushroom risotto wild, cooked and presented as if they had been scallops, with purple and green roasted Brussels sprouts, round carrots and pea sprouts.
Posted by Golden Globes on Thursday, January 2, 2020
"It was a little shocking at first, but we were happy to have made that change. It is the first time that a dinner is served entirely at a world-class show plant based, without dairy or any animal derivatives, "explained Beverly Hilton executive chef Matthew Morgan. «I think it was an important position. I have a one-year-old girl and I wish she lived on a healthy planet, she and her entire generation. "
The dessert, created by the hotel executive pastry chef, Thomas Henzi, was a cake with sponge cake with coffee and icing chocolate, naturally 100% plant based. "Obviously the challenge was not to use animal products such as jellies, eggs or butter, but only vegetable ingredients," explained the pastry chef. "And there is a big difference. There is always need to learn new things even when you get older. "
pros and cons
Joaquin Phoenix, protagonist of The Joker, "Best dramatic actor" at the Golden Globes, is also a longtime vegan, and has called the choice of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association a "very bold move". On stage, while collecting his prize, he wanted to "thank the association for recognizing the link between breeding and climate change". And if Brad Pitt also appreciated the initiative, many have criticized it. Radio host Mark Simone wrote on Twitter that guests of the Golden Globes "ate a vegan dinner to combat climate change, while their 750 limousines they were out in the parking lot and over 100 private jets were waiting for them outside. "
