KLM to serve meals by US chef Daniel Green
Amstelveen – Monday, 1 December 2008
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines today started a culinary collaboration with television chef Daniel Green, who has designed meals for passengers travelling in KLM’s Economy Class from the United States. Chef Green is widely known for his focus on healthy eating.
For years now, KLM has worked together successfully with famous chefs from different parts of the globe to create meals for the airlines’ World Business Class. KLM’s collaboration with Daniel Green marks the first time the carrier has worked with a chef from the US to design dishes for Economy Class. According to Green, tasty and healthy are the main themes of his cooking style. “Healthy food can be delicious,” he says. “It doesn’t have to be complex, because a small number of ingredients can be combined to create the most delicious meals”.
In addition to his focus on healthy cooking, Asian cuisine is characteristic of Green’s kitchen. “For my job I regularly travel to Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia,” Green continues. “I absolutely love Oriental food and I’m easily inspired by these delicious and unusually spiced dishes.”
Passengers can choose from Asian bean salad, miso salmon with rice and green beans and a rice and mango custard for dessert, or a couscous salad, slow-barbecued chicken with mashed potatoes, grilled corn and red peppers and a chocolate coffee cake for dessert.
Recipes by Daniel Green can be found on his website: www.televisoncookery.com.
For more information:
KLM Media Relations, Marisca Kensenhuis, tel.: +31(0)20–6494545.
About KLM
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines was founded in 1919, making it the world's oldest airline operating under its original name. In 2004, Air France and KLM merged to form AIR FRANCE KLM. The merger produced the strongest European airline group based on two powerful brands names and hubs —Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle. The two airlines collaborate on three core activities while maintaining their own identities — passenger transport, cargo, transport, and aircraft maintenance.
In the Netherlands, KLM comprises the core of the KLM Group which further includes KLM cityhopper and transavia.com. KLM serves 137 destinations using a modern fleet of 113 aircraft and employs 33,000 people around the world. KLM is a leader in the airline industry, which offers reliable operations and customer-oriented products resulting from its policy of enthusiasm and sustainable innovation.
KLM is a member of SkyTeam, an airline alliance offering a network of 841 destinations in more than 162 nations on six continents. The KLM network connects the Netherlands to every important economic region around the world and, as such, serves as a powerful driver for the Dutch economy.
In fiscal 2007/08, the KLM Group amassed a turnover of EUR 8.0 billion. The positive operating results amounted to EUR 553 million and the net profit came to EUR 291 million.