A Laila Gohar meal is a feast for the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. For the Vogue Pre-Met Gala Party, hosted by Sally Singer at Little Italy’s Forlini restaurant, the Egyptian chef (though culinary curator might be a more apt identifier) was called upon to interpret a somewhat nebulous inspiration theme: Paolo Sorrentino’s film The Great Beauty. Though Sorrentino’s other work, HBO’s The Young Pope, more closely aligns with the Costume Institute's Heavenly Bodies exhibition, The Great Beauty, set in Rome and rife with raucous party scenes, is a far better jumping off point for, well, a raucous party.
CHEAP AIR JORDANS For this mambo Italiano, #spaghettiandmetballs were served, with Gohar’s decadent delights following. “It was a more is more philosophy,” she explained. On offer were classic Italian dolci and Italian-American staples, “I did a lot of research and cracked open several Italian cookbooks for recipes,” she says.
Evoking a family-style wedding dessert station where the sweet tooth wants for nothing, Gohar displayed cookies in mounds, cheesecakes in tiers, and Jordan almonds by the dozens. An abundance of pandoro cakes (panettone without the fruit), cannolis, and Italian rainbow cake cookies, were also on offer. JORDANS CHINA And like the film’s surreally indulgent visuals, Gohar employed color therapy to shock. “We baked with a lot of red food coloring, which turns the food pink,” she says. For more vibrance, Gohar candied cherries and oranges for a sugar-filled, gluten-free option. There were also fruit platters piled high with pears, pineapples, and more for fructose and glucose, galore.
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