Millennium Rib Roast

My New Year’s Eve dinner for the millennium was a long time in the planning. We had just finished the renovations on our apartment in Paris and guests would be coming from as far away as Australia. The menu was hotly debated for weeks. Finally I settled on a standing rib roast of beef for the main course. Impressive, simple to carve, and delicious hot, warm, or even at room temperature, depending how the dinner progressed and how much the cook celebrated. I left Canada on Christmas Day, arm