Celebrity chef cooks up new Delta meals

Celebrity chef Todd English has created new breakfast and entree options for Delta Air Lines. The five dishes will be available to Coach-Class passengers on flights lasting more than four hours.

Priced at between $4 and $9, the dishes are to be introduced on 50 percent of all Delta domestic flights by spring 2008.

The breakfast options created by English include ciabatta rolls with grape jelly and banana slices, and croissants filled with apple butter, cheddar cheese, turkey bacon and slices of apple.

For lunch or a light dinner, English has designed entrees including chilled black olive spaghetti salad, a Mediterranean shrimp salad, and a roast beef steak sandwich, with blue cheese dressing.

Joanne Smith, Delta's Senior Vice-President of In-Flight Service and Global Product Development, said: "Todd English has a truly unique and world-class approach to cuisine that is a perfect addition to Delta's food for purchase menu."

English added: "I've designed a menu of entrees that I hope will change customers' ideas of what Coach Class food can be."

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