Dear Oscar:

It is that time of year again. Your star-studded gala known as the Academy Awards is about to be launched. Come Sunday, February 22, 2009, millions of eyes with a fascination for Hollywood glitz and glamour will tune in to see which of their favorite celebrities walk away with your little golden statue.

In many homes across the nation, families plan to stop everything (including work on their family cookbooks with my fantastic cookbook-making software) to watch the ceremony on television. Viewers will certainly have to eat during the four-hour extravaganza, so what is Wolfgang Puck serving at the Governor’s Ball Dinner after-party that I can make at home? (Fair warning: If his recipes are inspiration enough, I may even include them in my own family cookbook.)

I understand the best picture nominees are quite international in flavor, so I could come up with a little nosh from each of those areas for a taste-filled theme:

Best Picture Nominee + Story Location = Possible Nosh

Frost/Nixon (Washington, D.C.) — Bean soup
Milk (San Francisco) — Seafood cocktail
Slumdog Millionaire (India) — Samosas with chutney
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (New Orleans) — Bananas Foster
The Reader (Germany) — Bratwurst

Or, we could actually peek at Wolfgang Puck’s pre-party plan for the Governor’s Ball Dinner Menu:

Governor’s Ball Dinner Menu

Based on Wolfgang’s menu, I surmise that most viewers would be very satisfied to mimic the dinner enjoyed by their favorite rich and famous celebrities with a selection from the following easy-to-do Oscar Party-at-home menu ideas:

- Mini hamburgers
- Crab cakes
- Pizza
- Salmon cream cheese spread on crackers
- Egg rolls
- Sushi (California rolls)
- Shrimp cocktail
- Barbecued ribs
- Popcorn
- Chocolate bars
- Champagne

Most of the dishes in the above selection are available in frozen food or deli sections of the supermarket, so good quality results are bound to be available without days of logistics planning in the kitchen (unlike Wolfgang, who has a whole army of assistants helping weeks in advance of Oscar Night).

So thanks, Oscar, for helping make everyone’s Academy Award’s viewing bash a big success. After all, without you, there wouldn’t be a reason to party at all.

Yours truly,

Matilda

P.S. Have you ever considered making an Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cookbook? I just happen to have fantastic cookbook-making software…. And, by the way, you really do know how to throw a party.

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