{"id":49,"date":"2007-10-08T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/08\/49\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:32:26","slug":"49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/10\/08\/49\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s restaurant Archipelago might even have some surprises for foodies from Guangzhou.  Surrounded by art and trinkets from around the world (which the menu mentions are for sale), I sat on a tropical throne during dinner there on October 3.<\/p>\n<p>Service was slow but meticulous.  Our waiter suggested an inexpensive Malbec that was both excellent and excellent with our food.  Without his help, pairing a wine would have been a challenge&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For appetizers we had peacock and crocodile.  The former was ground and shaped into a soft, moist meatball\/fritter.  The latter, the highlight of the evening, was wrapped in a vine leaf and grilled.  With a texture between a scallop and the most succulent chicken, the crocodile slipped apart in my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Our mains of zebra and kangaroo were quite good, but tasted like (sliced) turkey and (cubed) beef.  Both were perfectly paired with their vegetables.  For dessert we settled for the &#8220;chocolate fix,&#8221; since they were out of the chocolate-covered scorpions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London&#8217;s restaurant Archipelago might even have some surprises for foodies from Guangzhou. Surrounded by art and trinkets from around the world (which the menu mentions are for sale), I sat on a tropical throne during dinner there on October 3. Service was slow but meticulous. Our waiter suggested an inexpensive Malbec that was both excellent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[999],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}