There are numerous master Indian chefs in the U.S. who could have been called on to prepare a vegetarian Indian feast. Instead a chef with northern European nouvelle cuisine was chosen to create a very strange menu indeed, and he could not force himself to leave out the shrimp.

I have to be glad that they at least gave a wave to vegetarianism, but it was hardly heartwarming to me as a vegetarian. It was an opportunity lost to make the dinner truly enjoyable for the Prime Minister without asking him to watch formerly living creatures being eating.