Bump of caviar anyone?
(Picture: Amelia Allen / Evening Standard)It was Monday at The Hurlingham Club and a group of friends took themselves off to one of the busy corners of the marquee splayed over that famously pristine lawn. Standing in a circle, they took turns scooping a small, shimmering spoon into the open pot in front of them, dug deep and poured the contents onto their clenched fists, raised it to their face… and sucked it into their mouths as a whale might do a particularly fine bit of plankton.
It was the same at the Matches party in April, at Frieze in New York and Diplo was even at it at the Grand Prix. “Bumps” of caviar are to parties today what the chocolate fountain was in the Nineties. The New York Times agrees it’s “all the rage” (“Why are some diners licking fish roe from their fists?” it asked this month).
