The Meals of 007: A Comprehensive Guide

Fleming's Bond took great delight in his food and drink and I take equal pleasure in Fleming's description of 007's repasts. That in mind, I thought I'd catalog Bond's meals as I do my yearly Flemingathon.

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Casino Royale
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Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

At the Splendide after the failed assassination attempt on Bond: pate de fois gras, cold langouste, thick, hot toast.

Dinner at the Splendide with Vesper: caviar, small underdone tournedos with Bernaise sauce, artichoke hearts, an avocado pear with French dressing for dessert and Taittinger Brut Blanc de Blanc '43.

Veuve Clicquot, scrambled eggs and bacon in Le Roi Galant after defeating Le Chiffre at the tables.

At L'Auberge du Fruit Defendu Bond and Vesper have pate', French bread with yellow butter in ice chips, broiled lobster, champagne, coffee and brandy.

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Live and Let Die

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Lunch in a plush room on the 20th story of an office building in Manhattan as described by Leiter: "Soft shelled crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef hamburgers, medium rare, from the charcoal grill, French fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with Thousand Island dressing, ice cream with melted butterscotch, and as good a liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?"

Breakfast at the St. Regis hotel in New York: a large orange juice, three eggs slightly scrambled, with bacon, a double portion of cafe espresso with cream, toast and marmalade.

Dinner with Felix at Ma' Frazier's in Harlem: little neck clams, fried chicken Maryland with bacon and sweet corn.

Breakfast at the St. Regis before boarding the Silver Phantom for Florida with Solitaire: large pineapple juice, Cornflakes and cream, shirred eggs with bacon, double portion of caffe espresso, toast and marmalade.

Lunch with Solitaire on the Silver Phantom: Old Fashioneds made with Old Graddad, chicken sandwiches, decaffeinated Sanka.

After rejecting a couple of fancifully-described items on the Silver Phantom menu as "eyewash," Bond orders for himself and Solitaire a simple meal of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, a salad, and domestic Camembert which Bond regards as "one of the most pleasant surprises on American menus."

At a sleazy dive in Jacksonville with Solitaire: "orange juice, coffee, scrambled eggs, twice."

Bond and Leiter dining at the Everglades "oldster" resort in St. Petersburg after the kidnapping of Solitaire: "What it came down to was tomato juice, boiled fish with a white sauce, a strip of frozen turkey with a dab of cranberry, and a wedge of lemon curd surmounted by a whorl of stiff cream substitute."

Prior to his battle with the Robber, Bond has the "largest steak he's ever seen" (rare), with fries, a quarter pint of Old Grand-dad, and draughts of very strong coffee at a "dark and friendly" place called Pete's.

In the motel cafeteria near the Tampa airport Bond has a "delicious three decker Western sandwich and coffee."

Bond's first breakfast in Jamaica consisted of "paw paw [papaya] with a slice of green lime, a dish piled with red bananas, purple star apples, and tangerines, scrambled eggs and bacon, Blue Mountain coffee...Jamaican marmalade...and guava jelly."

The meal to be prepared for Bond and Solitaire on their first night of "passionate leave" by Jamaica's finest chef working under Quarrel's gimlet eye: black crabs, roast suckling pig, avocado pear salad, guavas and coconut cream, and Commander Strangway's private stash of the "best Champagne in Jamaica."

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Moonraker

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At the Secret Service canteen: grilled sole, a large mixed salad with Bond's own mustard-laced dressing, brie and toast, a half carafe of white Bordeaux, two cups of black coffee.

At Blades with M: smoked salmon, lamb cutlets, peas and new potatoes, asparagus with Hollandaise, a slice of pineapple, pre-war Wolfschmidt vodka from Riga, and a '46 Dom Perignon.

At the Cafe Royal in Dover, Bond has scrambled eggs, bacon and "plenty of coffee."

At the Granville Hotel following Bond and Brand's near death under the Dover cliffs: three brandies-and-sodas, fried soles, Welsh rarebits and coffee.

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Diamonds Are Forever

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At Scott's, near MI6 headquarters, Bond and Chief-of-Staff Bill Tanner have dressed crab and a pint of Black Velvet.

At Shannon airport en route to the US: steak, champagne, and a goblet of hot coffee laced with Irish whisky and a half inch of cream.

At Sardi's in New York with Felix: smoked salmon, brizzola, half an avocado with French dressing and espresso.

At 21 in New York with Tiffany: caviar, cutlets, Clicquot Rose', asparagus with mousseline sauce, liqueurs, coffee.

At Voisin in New York by himself: vodka martinis, eggs Benedict and strawberries.

At the Chicken-in-a-Basket diner along the Taconic Parkway en route to Saratoga with Leiter: scrambled eggs, sausages, buttered rye toast and iced coffee.

At the Pavillion restaurant in Saratoga, Bond and Leiter have vodka martinis, broiled lobster, bourbon and branch water.

At the restaurant in the Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas, Bond has a dozen cherrystone clams, a steak, and vodka martinis--of course.

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From Russia with Love

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Breakfast prepared by May: two large cups of strong, black coffee with no sugar; one egg boiled three and one third minutes; two thick slices of wholewheat toast with a thick pat of yellow Jersey butter; Tiptree "Little Scarlet" strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade; Norwegian Heather Honey.

Breakfast at the Krystal Palas in Istanbul: yogurt, peeled green figs, "jet black" Turkish coffee.

Lunch with Darko Kerim at the Misir Carsisi restaurant in Istanbul: raki, sardines en papillote, doner kebab and a rich, earthy Burgundy called Kavaklidere.

At the Gypsy camp Bond has raki, a garlicky meat stew, and loaves of bread.

At Stefan Trempo's flat in Belgrade following the murder of Darko Kerim: slivovic, peaches and smoked ham.

Breakfast aboard the Orient Express with Tatiana in Solvenia: fried eggs, hard brown bread and coffee heavy with chicory.

Dinner aboard the Orient Express with Tatiana: Americanos, Chianti Broglio, tagliatelle verdi and "an escalope."

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Doctor No

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At the Joy Boat with Quarrel: broiled lobster and steak with "native vegetables."

Breakfast in Julius No's "mink-lined prison": pineapple juice, scrambled eggs on toast, rashers of bacon, a grilled kidney, English pork sausage, two kinds of hot toast, rolls, marmalade, honey, strawberry jam, coffee and fresh cream.

Dinner with Dr. No: caviar, grilled lamb cutlets, salad and angels on horseback.

Dinner prepared by Honey Ryder: broiled lobster, fruit, bread and butter and homemade mayonnaise.

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Goldfinger

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With Junius DuPont at Bill's on the Beach: cracked stone crabs with melted butter, racks of thick toast, Pommery pink champagne 1950, coffee. Bond describes this as the most delicious meal of his life.

Lunch at the Flordiana: traditional shrimp cocktail, snapper with tartar sauce, roast prime ribs of beef au jus, and pineapple surprise.

Lunch in Ramsgate: vodka and tonic with two excellent ham sandwiches, lots of mustard.

Dinner in Auric's manor in Reculver: a bottle of '53 Piesporter Goldtropschen with curried shrimp; a '47 Mouton Rothschild with roast duckling; cheese souffle and coffee.

At the Hotel de la Gare in Orleans: two oeufs cocotte a la creme, a large sole meuniere, camambert, a "well iced" pint of Rose d'Anjou, coffee and Hennessey Three Star.

On a roadside verge with Tilly Masterton: Lyon sausage, bread, butter and a half liter of Macon.

At the brasserie Bavaria in Coppet, Switzerland: enzian, choucroute, half a carafe of Fondant, gruyere, pumpernickel and coffee.

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Thunderball

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Spaghetti Bolognese at Lucien's in Brighton

After having taken the cure at Shrublands, Bond falls off the health wagon once SPECTRE's plot becomes known to him. And he returns to Bond food. To May: "Be an angel and make me your kind of scrambled eggs--four eggs. Four rashers of that American hickory-smoked bacon if we've got any left, hot buttered toast--your kind, not whole-meal--and a big pot of coffee, double strength. And bring in the drink tray."

Bond has a dreadful meal at the Royal Bahamian Hotel in Nassau: Native Seafood Cocktail Supreme, and Disjointed Home Farm Chicken, Saute' au Cresson.

Before meeting Domino to tell her about her brother's death and Largo's plot, Bond downs a club sandwich and a double bourbon and soda in the Royal Bahamian.

Aboard the USS Manta nuclear sub: poached eggs, rye toast and coffee.

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The Spy Who Loved Me

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In the cafe of the Dreamy Pines Motor Court, Vivienne Michel fixes Bond scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and coffee.

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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At an auberge south of Orleans: pate' maison, poularde a la creme, and "instant" Pouille-Fousse'.

At a modest restaurant in Royale-les-Eaux, one of Bond's favorite in France: turbot poche, sauce mousseline, half a roast partridge, half a bottle of Mouton Rothschild '53, a glass of ten-year-old Calvados and three cups of coffee. **whew!**

Prior to his venture to Piz Gloria, Bond has two double vodka and tonics with Angostura, scrambled eggs fines herbes prepared by May, and then two more vodka and tonics before repairing to bed.

With Blofeld's Angels of Death, Bond has Poulet Gloria. Fleming describes it as a spatchcocked chicken with a mustard cream sauce.

Oeufs Gloria and a green salad. OG consists of chopped hard boiled eggs with a cream and cheese sauce laced with English mustard.

Stil in Club Gloria: pate maison, oeufs Gloria and the cheese plate.

Scrambled eggs and coffee in Zurich Central Airport as Bond proposes to Tracy.

Christmas dinner with M: Marsala, Infuriator, plum pudding, turkey, coffee.

At some unknown spot in London, Bond has two ham sandwiches with "stacks of mustard," and a half pint of Harper's bourbon on the rocks.

In Strasbourg Bond has foie gras and a half bottle of Champagne.

With Draco's men on the outskirts of Strasbourg, Bond has a foot of Strasbourg garlic sausage, a hunk of bread and "a passable Riquewihr."

Bond's "last" bachelor bash with ex-Luftwaffe cab driver at Munich's Franziskaner Keller: "mounds of Weisswurst and four steins of beer."

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You Only Live Twice

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Aboard a train in Japan: raw octopus and rice

At a restaurant in Japan: raw lobster, rice, raw quails' eggs in sauce and sliced seaweed.

In another Japanese restaurant: Kobe steak, a saucer of blood.

At the Miyako Hotel in Kyoto, Bond has a double portion of eggs Benedict and a pint of Jack Daniel's.

On the ship called the Murasaki Maru, Bond and Tanaka have ham omelets and sake'.

In the town of Beppu, Bond and Tanaka have a feast of fugu and sake'.

A breakfast of tofu and rice on the Ama island of Kuro.

Lunch with Kissy, featuring rice, fish and seaweed.

Breakfast of rice and tofu with an egg beaten into it.

Beef sukiyaki (with the addition of toad sweat and powdered lizard), rice and tea with Kissy and family.

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The Man with the Golden Gun

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At the Thunderbird Hotel in Jamaica: eggs Benedict and Walker's Deluxe Bourbon.

With Scaramanga's collection of hoods: shrimp cocktail, steak, fruit salad.

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The Short Stories

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"Risico"

Dinner in Rome with Kristatos: Italian rolls and butter, the house chianti, tagliatelli verdi with Genoese sauce [pesto], and coffee.

Lunch with Colombo: Bolognese sausage, whisky, rolls, olives, provelone cheese.

Breakfast with Colombo and his crew: fried eggs, bacon, toast, sweet coffee laced with rum.


"The Hildebrand Rarity"

Lunch with Fidele Barbey on Chagrin Island in the Seychelles: chicken salad and cold beer.

Dinner with Fidele and the Krests: caviar from Hammacher Schlemmer with "all the trimmings" and pink champagne.

"The Living Daylights"

In the executioner's apartment in Berlin: a "vast dish" of bacon and scrambled eggs, buttered toast and black coffee laced liberally with whisky.

At a restaurant near the Grunewald, Bond has a double portion of matjes herring smothered in cream and onion rings, and two "Molle mit Korn" (boilermakers).


"007 in New York"

At the Edwardian Room Bond has a dry martini, smoked salmon and Scrambled Eggs James Bond.

The best thing he ever ate was Pussy Galore.

:face:

Fleming seems to fetishize something specific in each Bond novel. He does it to food in Goldfinger.

Ed Tom Kowalsky wrote:

At the Splendide after the failed assassination attempt on Bond: pate de fois gras, cold langouste, thick, hot toast.

Roger Moore wouldn't like that foie gras entre. He's been protesting the force feeding of the birds to make the stuff. No wonder he didn't read Fleming.

Great thread. I love Fleming's food fetish - even if I wouldn't eat half the stuff he talks about.

Fleming's Bond took great delight in his food and drink and I take equal pleasure in Fleming's description of 007's repasts. That in mind, I thought I'd catalog Bond's meals as I do my yearly Flemingathon.

Casino Royale

Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

At the Splendide after the failed assassination attempt on Bond: pate de fois gras, cold langouste, thick, hot toast.

Dinner at the Splendide with Vesper: caviar, small underdone tournedos with Bernaise sauce, artichoke hearts, an avocado pear with French dressing for dessert and Taittinger Brut Blanc de Blanc '43.

Veuve Clicquot, scrambled eggs and bacon in Le Roi Galant after defeating Le Chiffre at the tables.

At L'Auberge du Fruit Defendu Bond and Vesper have pate', French bread with yellow butter in ice chips, broiled lobster, champagne, coffee and brandy.


Live and Let Die

Lunch in a plush room on the 20th story of an office building in Manhattan as described by Leiter: "Soft shelled crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef hamburgers, medium rare, from the charcoal grill, French fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with Thousand Island dressing, ice cream with melted butterscotch, and as good a liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?"

Breakfast at the St. Regis hotel in New York: a large orange juice, three eggs slightly scrambled, with bacon, a double portion of cafe espresso with cream, toast and marmalade.

Dinner with Felix at Ma' Frazier's in Harlem: little neck clams, fried chicken Maryland with bacon and sweet corn.

Mrs Aural Sects wrote:

The best thing he ever ate was Pussy Galore.

:face:

I do believe you need to change your name to Booty Galore.

Tubes wrote:

Fleming seems to fetishize something specific in each Bond novel. He does it to food in Goldfinger.

We shall see about Goldfinger soon enough.

Santa wrote:

Great thread. I love Fleming's food fetish - even if I wouldn't eat half the stuff he talks about.

Agreed. I have no interest in lobster or pate, for instance, but Fleming sure makes it sound delicious.

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Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

This really is the perfect breakfast, though.

tiffanywint wrote:

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Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

This really is the perfect breakfast, though.

Basic as can be, but if the eggs are scrambled properly--no sure thing--the bacon is nice and crisp and the coffee good and strong, you can't go wrong with this.

Ed Tom Kowalsky wrote:

Basic as can be, but if the eggs are scrambled properly--no sure thing--the bacon is nice and crisp and the coffee good and strong, you can't go wrong with this.

True the eggs are scrambled just so aren't they.
Is it Fleming's "007 in New York" in which Bond's personal home scrambled eggs recipe is detailed?
At risk of blasphemy, Faulkes had some interesting dishes detailed in DMC. Bond did a lot of eating in that book too. Faulkes was writing as Ian Fleming after all.

Fleming/Bond's personal scrambled eggs recipe is definitely out there, and it may be in "007 in New York." I remember Sisillius posted this in his "Bond Food and Drink" thread on classic MI6 way back when.

At any rate, cooking scrambled eggs is much like cooking fish in that the timing and temperature of preparation must be just right. Overcook or undercook and you're toast, so to speak.

SCRAMBLED EGGS 'James Bond'

For FOUR individualists:

12 fresh eggs

salt & pepper

5 - 6 oz. of fresh butter


Break eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well. In a small copper (or heavy-bottomed saucepan) melt four oz. of the butter. When melted, pour in the eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continously with a small egg whisk.

While the eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove pan from heat, add rest of butter and continue whisking for half a minute, adding the while finely chopped chives or fine herbs. Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearence only) with pink champagne (Taittainger) and low music.


[007 in New York]

Thanks for posting, 6of1.

You're welcome, book was just falling from my duffel bag.

The third crucial part after timing and temperature would be the low music. While perfectly done eggs can go with almost any sparkling wine (if it's not sweet dessert wine) the same can't be said for any kind of low music. ;)

I'm going to print it off and pass it to my mother and visit her on Saturday morning expecting great things :)

Casino Royale

Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

At the Splendide after the failed assassination attempt on Bond: pate de fois gras, cold langouste, thick, hot toast.

Dinner at the Splendide with Vesper: caviar, small underdone tournedos with Bernaise sauce, artichoke hearts, an avocado pear with French dressing for dessert and Taittinger Brut Blanc de Blanc '43.

Veuve Clicquot, scrambled eggs and bacon in Le Roi Galant after defeating Le Chiffre at the tables.

At L'Auberge du Fruit Defendu Bond and Vesper have pate', French bread with yellow butter in ice chips, broiled lobster, champagne, coffee and brandy.


Live and Let Die

Lunch in a plush room on the 20th story of an office building in Manhattan as described by Leiter: "Soft shelled crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef hamburgers, medium rare, from the charcoal grill, French fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with Thousand Island dressing, ice cream with melted butterscotch, and as good a liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?"

Breakfast at the St. Regis hotel in New York: a large orange juice, three eggs slightly scrambled, with bacon, a double portion of cafe espresso with cream, toast and marmalade.

Dinner with Felix at Ma' Frazier's in Harlem: little neck clams, fried chicken Maryland with bacon and sweet corn.

Breakfast at the St. Regis before boarding the Silver Phantom for Florida with Solitaire: large pineapple juice, Cornflakes and cream, shirred eggs with bacon, double portion of caffe espresso, toast and marmalade.

Lunch with Solitaire on the Silver Phantom: Old Fashioneds made with Old Graddad, chicken sandwiches, decaffeinated Sanka.

Nice detail and context to go with the meal particulars Khannners. I'm talking location and meal companion details.

Handy to have all this info in one place. Yum yum!

Avec plaisir, tiffy.

Casino Royale

Breakfast at Hotel Splendide: half a pint of iced orange juice, three scrambled eggs and bacon, a double portion of coffee without sugar.

At the Splendide after the failed assassination attempt on Bond: pate de fois gras, cold langouste, thick, hot toast.

Dinner at the Splendide with Vesper: caviar, small underdone tournedos with Bernaise sauce, artichoke hearts, an avocado pear with French dressing for dessert and Taittinger Brut Blanc de Blanc '43.

Veuve Clicquot, scrambled eggs and bacon in Le Roi Galant after defeating Le Chiffre at the tables.

At L'Auberge du Fruit Defendu Bond and Vesper have pate', French bread with yellow butter in ice chips, broiled lobster, champagne, coffee and brandy.


Live and Let Die

Lunch in a plush room on the 20th story of an office building in Manhattan as described by Leiter: "Soft shelled crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef hamburgers, medium rare, from the charcoal grill, French fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with Thousand Island dressing, ice cream with melted butterscotch, and as good a liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?"

Breakfast at the St. Regis hotel in New York: a large orange juice, three eggs slightly scrambled, with bacon, a double portion of cafe espresso with cream, toast and marmalade.

Dinner with Felix at Ma' Frazier's in Harlem: little neck clams, fried chicken Maryland with bacon and sweet corn.

Breakfast at the St. Regis before boarding the Silver Phantom for Florida with Solitaire: large pineapple juice, Cornflakes and cream, shirred eggs with bacon, double portion of caffe espresso, toast and marmalade.

Lunch with Solitaire on the Silver Phantom: Old Fashioneds made with Old Graddad, chicken sandwiches, decaffeinated Sanka.

After rejecting a couple of fancifully-described items on the Silver Phantom menu as "eyewash," Bond orders for himself and Solitaire a simple meal of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, a salad, and domestic Camembert which Bond regards as "one of the most pleasant surprises on American menus."

At a sleazy dive in Jacksonville with Solitaire: "orange juice, coffee, scrambled eggs, twice."

I vaguely remember Bond deriding American scrambled eggs as either "too runny or too hard" in LALD. It's been a while since I've read it, though.

Yes, Tubes, he laments the fact that Yanks make their scrambled eggs with milk (that's how I make 'em), and attributes this horror to the Kraut influence. Bond's also aghast at the Yank penchant for mincing boiled eggs and serving them in a teacup.

Here are some food and drink recipes from my old Bond blog:
http://licencetoblog.wordpress.com/category/style/food-drink-recipes/

There's a good (albeit brief) article here on the meals of literary Bond:

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“Room service? I’d like to order breakfast. Half a pint of orange juice, three eggs, lightly scrambled, with bacon, a double portion of café Espresso with cream. Toast. Marmalade. Got it?”

Although enjoying Beluga caviar served with chilled vodka, James Bond claims to prefer “the ordinary plain food of the country” when abroad. However, the definitive James Bond meal is scrambled eggs with bacon and/or sausages.

James Bond will eat them any time, day or night, with vodka and tonic or Champagne. In the story 007 in New York published in the US version of Fleming’s non-fiction travellogue Thrilling Cities and added to recent editions of Octopussy and The Living Daylights, the Ian Fleming gives a recipe for “Scrambled eggs James Bond“.

Breakfast
When in London, Bond maintains a simple routine. Sitting down to The Times, he breakfasts on two large cups of “very strong coffee, from De Bry in New Oxford Street” brewed in a Chemex coffee maker and an egg served in a dark blue egg cup with a gold ring round the top, boiled for three and a third minutes. There is also wholewheat toast, Jersey butter and a choice of Tiptree ‘Little Scarlet’ strawberry jam, Cooper’s Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum and Mason, served on blue Minton china. Breakfast is prepared by May, his Scottish housekeeper, whose friend supplies the speckled brown eggs from French Marans hens.

However, Bond’s diet can vary according to where he is in the world. Although a typical hotel breakfast would normally consist of coffee and eggs, Bond’s first breakfast in Istanbul in From Russia, With Love is quite different: “The yoghourt, in a blue china bowl, was deep yellow and with the consistency of thick cream. The green figs, ready peeled, were bursting with ripeness, and the Turkish coffee was jet black and with the burned taste that showed it had been freshly ground”.

Lunch
While at headquarters Bond routinely eats in the staff canteen. However, he sometimes goes to “Scott’s” with best friend in the service, Chief of Staff, Bill Tanner, or with his secretary, Mary Goodnight.

Located in Coventry Street when the books were written, he typically orders dressed crab and Black Velvet or roast grouse and pink Champagne. Scott’s moved to Mount Street in Mayfair in the 1970s and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2001.

Once again in Istanbul, Bond has lunch with the Head of Station T, Kerim Bey. For a starter Kerim recommends a sardine dish that to Bond “tasted like any other fried sardines”, followed by a choice that demonstrates that anyone can eat like 007; the Doner Kebab is described to him as “very young lamb broiled over charcoal with savoury rice. Lots of onions in it”.

Dinner
James Bond’s staple diet seems to consist of grilled sole, veal, steak and French fries or cold roast beef with potato salad. In Moonraker we find Bond dining in London with M at his private club, Blades.

Bond starts with asparagus and hollandaise sauce, followed by Scottish lamb cutlets with buttered peas and new potatoes and finishes with a slice of pineapple.

On assignment James Bond will eat langouste in France, tagliatelle verdi in Italy or stone crabs and melted butter in the US, but contemptuous of the cream and wine sauces of French cuisine which are designed to hide the poor quality of the meat.

In Live And Let Die he visits Harlem with Felix Leiter, dining on Little Neck Clams and Fried Chicken Maryland at Ma Frazier’s on Seventh Avenue. Diamonds Are Forever sees 007 back in New York and making the most of the food; lunch at Sardi’s after meeting Leiter, where he has Brizzola, dinner at the 21 Club with Tiffany Case, where they eat caviar followed by cutlets with asparagus and mousseline sauce, and the following night Bond dines alone at Voisin’s for “two Vodka Martinis, Oeufs Benedict and strawberries”.

http://www.tjbd.co.uk/james-bond-food.htm

I remember the Stone Crabs in a burnt butter sauce and toast from Goldfinger. Did they have the pink champange too? :scratch: