Madonna, Anna Wintour, Queen Elizabeth demanded wild meals: celeb chef

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news.com.au podcast “I’ve Got News For You.”During one such stage she would eat his “beautiful” tuna Niçoise salad that he claimed “everyone ate,” said the cook extraordinaire.However, the fashion expert didn’t like fresh tuna, so her dish had to be made with canned fish — which she brought with her.Wintour would hand her silver tin to a waiter, who would hand it off to a busboy, who then brought it to the kitchen. “So I’d make this beautiful niçoise salad, and then open a tin of tuna and just put it on top.

And she loved it,” explained Schroeter, who co-founded Sydney, Australia’s Beckett’s restaurant and worked in kitchens at London’s Savoy Hotel and the Royalton New York.As for the Queen of Pop, 64, she hired Schroeter to work her high-security 37th birthday party several decades ago at the Delano Hotel in Miami.The plate he made for the “Material Girl” — with help from three other chefs from around the country — was dubbed the “Madonna salmon.”The meal, reportedly her “favorite dish,” was created with a specific type of salmon and was sliced in the shape of a butterfly.

Crushed cucumber, dates, walnuts, shaved fennel, lemon juice, olive oil and sweet basil topped off the entrée.“It’s healthy, it’s good for you,” Schroeter said. “It was brilliant — three days down there and all I had to do was one dish.

It was the best function I’ve had.”He also recalled that he only “briefly” met Madonna but still said she was a “lovely, lovely woman.”Another queen — Elizabeth, who died in September 2022 — would often stop by the Savoy for dessert.He recounted how he instantly knew that a member of the royal family was in the vicinity when “heavily armed security guards [came] through the kitchens with Alsatians [German.