Millennium Dinner
Although the whole Y2K thing was oriented around the change in the year from 1999 to 2000, because of some potential computer glitches (that didn’t happen, but the hype surrounding it all was impressive), the…
A Roll of the Deiss
Another one of our wine themed dinners – here, with all but the sparkling to launch the evening, from Marcel Deiss, one of my favorite Alsace producers. A Roll of the Deiss Sunday, 8 October,…
Shades of Yellow
Another color themed dinner I did a lot of those, and long before the modernist trend we’re seeing in 2015 for “monochrome” dinners. Prescient, that’s what I was, prescient. Second Sunday Supper Circle September 10,…
All Tarted Up & Nowhere To Go
All I remember is that I’d picked up some bottles of different vintages of “Clos de Tart”, and invited a bunch of wine geek friends to sample them over dinner. The names of the dishes…
Spring is Sprung?
Probably little to say here – the start of spring, though looking at the menu, that didn’t seem to be the actual theme, at least not based on the ingredients. I guess we were just…
The Lucky Charms Dinner
These were two sides to a single page, folded over into a “booklet” for the evening. I have no recollection of why I decided on a Lucky Charms themed dinner – perhaps related to some…
Free-Form February Food Fantasy
A study in alliteration, or as they might say on Sesame Street, today’s menu is brought to you by the letter “F”. Free-Form February Food Fantasy February 13, 2000 Frik Faux Pho Fillaboa ’96 Albariño…
The Last Gathering of the Popular Millennium
Obviously, given the date, we didn’t meet on the second Sunday that month – I imagine it was an “orphan’s” Christmas, as many (NY-ers in particular I think) are wont to call them – all…