On the unexpected: "If possible, I try to plot an evening so that something new is happening all the time. Guests coming in after dinner make a kind of second party. Games, like music are okay if the mood's right. Try to prepare a surprise. It can be the food, a little present in each napkin, a musician in the middle of dinner - never at the start, it wastes the impact - a poem read by a guest, an amusing table decoration - you know, something like a girl in a pie."
- Alexis Gregory, among other fine things, the author of Private Splendor: Great Families at Home, as quoted by Bloomingdale's Book of Entertaining, Ariane and Michael Batterberry (1976, FDS)
What is your dinner party girl in a pie?
3 comments:
A Man in a Quiche, of course!!!!
How funny! The most entertaining thing around here is hilarious statements from the grandchildren. Such as my Granddaughter commenting on the ultrasound image of the baby in her mommy's belly:
"The baby doesn't have any clothes on?" and later that day, "I think the baby wants clothes on in mommy's belly!"
Four and twenty blackbirds, of course, after having sung a song of sixpence.
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