The G7’s calorie-busting menu

As the nation waits to hear whether life can finally return to normal come 21 June, world leaders have jetted into Cornwall for the G7 junket in a bid to set the world to rights. Covid-19 and climate change are top of the agenda – but it isn’t all work and no play. Various social meets are on the cards as well as extravagant dinner as leaders chew over the fat. 

That food menu, however, is enough to make Jamie Oliver sob featuring cheese, cream and carbs galore. Only last year, Boris Johnson was telling aides that it was a bad idea to be a ‘fatty’ in your 50s, only Mr S is unsure the menu for G7 would get past Public Health England or the government’s new obesity strategy. Instead, it reads as a list of all the foods – from baked brie to pavlova – Johnson is unlikely to find in the fridge at home:

Friday To start: Spiced melon, gazpacho, coconut, high note herbs  For main: Turbot roasted on the bone (caught off the Cornish coast by a fisherman from Newquay) with Cornish new potatoes and wild garlic pesto with greens from the local  Padstow kitchen gardens Cheese course: Cornish cheese – Gouda, Cornish yarg, helford blue  Dessert: English strawberry pavlova  Petit fours: Clotted cream fudge, Mini clotted cream ice cream cone with chocolate earl grey truffles  Saturday Canapes including: sparkling scallops, Curgurrell Crab Claws and Portscatho Mackerel Main: Seared and smokey Moorland sirloin, Newlyn lobster and scorched leeks served with sides of layered Cornish potato chips, St Just purple sprout broccoli and salt baked beetroot.