Dining the Nobel Laureate way

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Make-believe laureates who want a taste of the 2003 Nobel Prize winners' banquet can do so Thursday at City Hall in Sweden's capital.

According to The Baltimore Sun, Stadshuskallaren, the subterranean Stockholm restaurant that is the site of the every Nobel Laureates' celebration, will reproduce Wednesday's feast and, with advance warning and a minimum of six guests, any previous Nobel Laureate dinner in the prize's 102 year history.

Thirty-three-year-old Urban Eriksson, head chef at the restaurant for the past six years, serves the meal on the winners' gold-leafed Orrefors china. Gourmets picking the Albert Einstein menu would be served mock-turtle soup, fillet of turbot, saddle of lamb with vegetables, and pears with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce.

Most popular is the 1994 dinner for Japanese poet Kenzaburo Oe: duck breasts rolled with spinach and mangoes and fillet of veal with mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes. The meal has been requested more than 26,000 times.