Video: Matt Moran on creating inflight meals for Singapore Airlines
By David Flynn, December 30 2013
If you've flown business class or first class with Singapore Airlines there's a very very good chance you'll have sampled one of the 600-odd dishes created by award-winning Australian chef Matt Moran.
Moran's been a member of SQ's International Culinary Panel for 10 years, alongside other famed chefs such as Georges Blanc from France and Japan's Yoshihiro Murata.
To mark that anniversary, Singapore Airlines has produced this quick video in which Moran gives an insight into how the ICP works and explains the challenges he has to take into consideration when designing meals that are served inflight, where the process of preparing meals – and the way they taste to travellers – is very different than on the ground, such as at his Aria restaurant in Sydney.
More articles on inflight (and on the ground!) dining from Australian Business Traveller
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- Ordering your business class meal before your flight (yes, no more "chicken or beef"!) with Singapore Airlines' Book The Cook
- Bringing an airline's home cuisine specialties onto worldwide flights with Asiana, Lufthansa and LAN
- The Qantas First Lounge: how seasonal menus are crafted
- Behind the scenes: fine dining at the Qantas First Lounge
- Virgin Atlantic's new economy class meals: fresh new ideas at the back of the plane
- Four course meals on three hour flights: the best "medium-haul" food in the sky
- Qantas' Rockpool consultant Terry Higgins shows how menus get from a chef's brain to your tray table
- How airlines try to keep business class food standards in the oft-dreaded "outstation catering" up to the same quality as the food that comes from their home base
- Dr Ron Georgiou, Malaysia Airlines' wine consultant, on the best wines to choose in the air
- Cutlery, crockery, salt and pepper shakers...the story behind everything else on your business class meal tray
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David Flynn is the Editor-in-Chief of Executive Traveller and a bit of a travel tragic with a weakness for good coffee, shopping and lychee martinis.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
04 Jun 2013
Total posts 29
SQ's Book the Cook is brilliant. Lots of options, especially ex. SIN. Only issue, is that they don't have photos of each option (compared to say, Chef on Call with MH)....
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
25 Sep 2013
Total posts 1139
Photos would definitely be useful. Malaysia Airlines really excels in this regard.
The only problem sometimes with using the Book The Cook service is if you end up preferring the sound of the inflight catering options more than what you ordered...
United Airlines - Mileage Plus
29 Jan 2011
Total posts 156
I did once order Matt Moran's beef fillet/steak via "book the cook" on a SQ flight. All I can say was it was like eating shoe-leather.
I did write a complaint to Matt Moran but never got a reply.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
25 Sep 2013
Total posts 1139
Great post.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
10 May 2011
Total posts 736
Interesting to read that MM has been on the panel for over 10 years, never thought that airlines have been involving celebrity chefs for such a long tie (than again, maybe MM wasn't that famous 10 years ago). I enjoy book the cook options, often if you order meals from the local cuisine out of the airlines homeport you get a very decent meal. Thai Airways has a wonderful selection all around, and the include pictures of the meal when ordering.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
25 Sep 2013
Total posts 1139
That surprised me too.
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