25 January 2009
Everyone that was at this event still remembers it. During the summer prior to this momentous event, the Home Office refused to grant a visa to a retired Ghurkha soldier who needed heart treatment. Joanna Lumley led the nation in outrage. Coincidentally, one of our Nepalese waiters returned from his visit home with a family recipe for bhuton, sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, mixed with barley, onion, ginger, garlic and spices, then stuffed into the stomach and steamed.