Media Launch Menu Emphasizes MAN's Ingredients

Calvin Klein took an interesting tact to promote its new MAN fragrance during a media launch at Edward Day Gallery. The company asked caterer Stuart and Saladino Catering and Event Stylists to incorporate ingredients used in the fragrance—including rosemary, mandarin, violet, nutmeg, bay leaf, and spearmint—in the hors d’oeuvres prepared for the event.

Stuart and Saladino rose to the challenge, creating a mouth-watering menu that included grapefruit rosemary sorbet, maple crumpets with sliced seared lamb loin and spearmint pesto, skewered grilled shrimp with mandarin miso glaze, potato and nutmeg latke with apple chutney, violet crème brûlée, and bay leaf and red wine beef tenderloin canapé with rosemary aioli.

Custom menus are nothing new for Stuart and Saladino, said Sara Jones, an event planner with the company. “Pretty much every time we get asked for a quotation or proposal, we’ll make up a menu for the client.”