Theme dinner parties
In article >,
"Dick R." > wrote:
> We¹ve had several dinner parties at our house with a close group of friends.
> Some of the menus have been based on recipes from cookbooks like:
> ³A Treasury of Great Recipes² by Mary and Vincent Price (beautiful book)
> ³Mickey¹s Gourmet Cookbook² (with recipes from Disneyland and Disney World)
>
> We also hosted a ³cooking party² with an Italian theme, where each couple
> prepared a dish. It was a casual/formal affair where the men wore suits or
> sport
> coats. A friend and I were the servers, and we would change into our server
> jackets (tacky, maroon jackets that I had purchased for $1 each at a rental
> agency) to serve the food. We had name tags on our jackets * I was Ricardo,
> he
> was Davido, and Davido would always flirt with a very attractive lady while
> serving (it was his wife!). After serving, we changed jackets and returned to
> the table where the attractive lady would mention that the server was
> flirting
> with her.
>
> Next up: In honor of Julia Child and the new movie with Meryl Streep, we¹ll
> host
> another dinner party * but where to begin? My wife has every book ever
> written
> by Julia, and the menu could be difficult.
>
> Wines: I¹ll always dig into my cellar and find something appropriate.
>
> Dick
Very clever theme.
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