{"id":184,"date":"2007-12-17T04:07:24","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wheresjo.com\/2007\/12\/17\/airline-food\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T22:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:10:01","slug":"airline-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Airline Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Waiting in the lounge before our departure, Jo returned from a trip to the refreshment bar furnishing gifts of cheese and biscuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Take these\u2019 she says adding that New Zealand airlines food is not all that good at times.<\/p>\n<p>How wrong was she.<\/p>\n<p>On boarding the aircraft and taking our seats we are greeted with a glass of sparkling wine, and a menu befitting any fine restaurant in London.<\/p>\n<p>The meals were all served on china crockery and there was real knives and forks to eat with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poached prawns with asparagus, red radish and preserved lemon aioli<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>choice from:<\/p>\n<p>NZ beef with oxtail ravioli, swiss chard and roasted cipoline onions.<br \/>\nNZ snapper with olive oil braised potatoes, brocolini, crushed roma tomatoes and rocket pesto.<br \/>\nDuck leg confit with braebirn apple, braised savoy cabbage and glazed chestnuts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dessert<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate pot de creme with caramel sauce, flourless chocolate biscuit and whipped cream<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheese<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A selection of fine NZ cheese with a glass of port<\/p>\n<p>The wine served was Wither Hills Sauvignon Blanc and the sparkling wine was Jo\u2019s favourite champagne \u2013 Veuve Cliquot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mike: Waiting in the lounge before our departure, Jo returned from a trip to the refreshment bar furnishing gifts of cheese and biscuits. \u2018Take these\u2019 she says adding that New Zealand airlines food is not all that good at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qMoz-2Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wheresjo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}