I've been enjoying a t.v. show on the Food Network channel called "Dinner Impossible," starring Robert Irvine. I just watched an episode where he went to a college, had only 6 hours to prepare a gourmet meal for something like 100 students, and he could only use the food that he could find in the student's campus housing. Most of it was junk food; a lot of it was ramen noodles. He also had a very limited "kitchen," located outdoors in a parking lot, and a deep fryer that kept breaking down.
The show was very entertaining to watch. He has a good sense for how to combine foods and flavors, he really knows how to cook, and he has a method and a system that's very adaptable. He seems to have an open mind!
I would love to see him do a Dinner Impossible show that involved macrobiotics. I can picture him going to the Macrobiotic Summer Camp or another macrobiotic gathering place where all of the macrobiotic foods are provided for him (according to the season and what is available fresh, locally). Grains would be pre-soaked and rinsed for him in advance, and items like pickles and pressed salads would be made ahead of time. I would have Julia Ferre, author of Basic Macrobiotic Cooking and French Meadows Cookbook (if she were willing) decide what the list of supplies would be.
Robert's mission (should he choose to accept it) would be to create a gourmet macrobiotic menu that would win over the most skeptical food critics. (I suppose that could include him too! He seems to think that a good meal needs to have a lot of "proteins," a term he uses when he means meat and other animal products.)
Another part of his mission might be to tell us what the percentage ratios were of grains, beans, and vegetables in each dish that he made. Or maybe he'd be required to provide at least ten dishes that correspond to George Ohsawa's macrobiotic diets #7 through #-3...
Who would be his dinner guests? What if we invited all the country's food critics from television, newspapers, and food magazines to attend?
It would also be fun to see if Robert could convince the master macrobiotic chefs of the world that he can cook delicious, gourmet, macrobiotic food for them. (Kind of like an "Iron Chef" challenge.) Who would be included on that guest list?
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