Annual Meeting 2024 - Highlights from Milan

O-makase is the word of the day, the phrase that in Japan tells your chef that your meal is both literally and metaphorically in her hands – “Choose for me,” it means. Most fine dining has an equivalent; the French say menu de dégustation, here in Milan / Mailand / Milano it’s called menù degustazione. That is: Non prevede scelte da parte del cliente! You, the diner, have no say. Either eat what’s set on the plate in front of you or stand up and leave the restaurant. O-makase, baby !   We hope you don’t leave, that is, switch off this podcast, although equally to please all 5300-plus delegate-guests at the ESPGHAN Annual Meeting Restaurant this year would be a miracle.  That’s 104 different countries-cuisines !  With courses in interventional ultrasound and in inflammatory bowel disease, also on offer are working-group and special-interest group meetings, an endoscopy learning zone, and an allied health professional course, together with 1433 accepted abstracts, uhm, menu items.  Now what about working a miracle? You ask. Well, there’s riches there, something for everybody – has our chef assembled from among this a tasting menu for everybody ?  We think so.  She’s reviewed the entire bill of fare and has selected a double armful of dishes to set before you ; meaty, piquant, provocative, and in every instance driving forward the intellectual, clinically relevant, and tasty art of paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition.  Here’s your table! Loosen your clothing unobtrusively, say to Dr Elena Cernat of Leeds, chef extraordinaire – now what was that phrase ? Right! O-makase! – and get ready to feast.   Elena Cernat´s favourite Italian song: Lasciate mi cantare https://open.spotify.com/track/5pzNrUTk5nhOOlUJQZGukp?si=e48dc20cde2743d3 ESPGHAN favourite Songs can be found on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YIHKjxITLEm9XNyHyypTo