Insider predicts William and Kate's royal wedding menu

Darren McGrady, the once royal chef who oversaw "the wedding of the century" for Charles and Diana, recently told People his predictions for this year's royal wedding menu. Although 1981 was a long time ago, McGrady knows things most people don't, like what Prince William's favorite childhood dish is and the order of eats on the big day.

"Guests will be invited back to Buckingham Palace for a wedding breakfast of Champagne, canapés and heavy h'ors d'oeuvres, such as smoked salmon, paté and mini sausage rolls," People explains. A formal dinner will follow later in the day.

With the slow economy and complaints about the monarchy draining the country's tax revenue, McGrady expects that, "[t]he royal family will not want to be seen as going backwards and actually having a big, seven-course meal with a soup course and a fish course," he says.

McGrady expects that they will be a mix of modern and traditional English cooking. He said he wouldn't be surprised if William's favorite childhood dish, cottage pie, was somewhere on the table. For those of us who wear sweaters not jumpers, cottage pie is the same as shepherd's pie, but is usually made with ground beef, not lamb. Another British dish McGrady could imagine at the wedding would be Gaelic steaks with braised rice. Mmm braised rice. Sounds...moist.

High-end cooking in England has turned itself inside out in the last 20 years. On nights out in London, it's more likely that that Kate and William enjoy sashimi and flash-frozen deconstructed gazpacho but as long as the wedding chef is unknown, foodies are left to wonder how contemporary their menu will be.

I picture organic food taking a spotlight. CBS's Celebrity Circuit reports that Kate uses lots of organic vegetables when she cooks with William in Wales. In the same vein as the Obama's vegetable garden, playing up fresh produce at their wedding would be a timely statement about health and environmental awareness.

What do you think will be on the table at the royal wedding?

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