Caines's May Pole honour
13 May 2004 by Joanna Wood
The call to cook for Prime Minister Tony Blair and Poland's visiting head of state, President Aleksander Kwasniewski, came Michael Caines's way last week. Devon-based chef-restaurateur Caines (above) was responsible for a banquet given for Kwasniewski at 10 Downing Street on 6 May, which included ballotine of foie gras with girolle mushrooms, roasted turbot and scallops with a pea pur‚e and a trio of chocolate desserts. "Cooking at Number 10 has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience which I thoroughly enjoyed," Caines said.
