Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo (also twice, for an early report on huge multinational stakes in gas drilling off Russia's Sakhalin Island and a profile of a frustrated inventor at Toshiba) and Deborah Orr in New York, for her account of the Barillapasta family.
The small record of that meal, its print and floral decoration now faded, is one of a collection of menus that Barilla, the world's biggest pasta-maker, has brought together in its library in Parma, Italy's gastronomic capital.