The Sunday Book Review in The New York Times always profiles an author. One of the questions they usually ask is: “If you were having a dinner party, which three people, living or dead, would you invite?”
I’ll never be profiled. The only one who would care about my answers anyway is me.
But I’d like to have a dinner party as long as I don’t have to cook. So below is my guest list. By the way, I’m inviting ten people to my dinner party.
Who would you invite to your dinner party? You can invite as few or as many people as you want.
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About your world, your family, your joys and frustrations, growing up, growing older, even recipes– even though I stopped cooking–by request–years ago.
Goodbye until next time…
Hope your day turns out
as well as I hope
(but doubt) mine will,
Gingy (Ilene)
As junk food recipes go, I’m telling you, my dear pal: make the Crunch Bombs. While they contain no redeeming nutritional value, they may just be the perfect salty/sweet junk food ever created.
Pocket. xx
Used to have lots of dinner parties, big and little, sometimes with themes. Like “Bring a Red Food for Valentine’s Day,” or Halloween costume parties. Stopped after all my favorite friends died, and I stopped working in a place with a great crowd who loved parties. So my party would be for my favorite friends who died: Susan, Paul, Jack, and their spouses. And my parents who would love them. The food would be one of my fabulous menus that I used to love to cook. Not so much anymore. Too much gluten, salt, milk etc. But for them, ok, I’d do it with love.
Would be a most interesting dinner Party!!! I am planning a birthday dinner party for my 2 grandsons (22 and 20 Yrs old) and that will be very interesting in a VERY different way. By the way, the thought of Kale totally turns me off. Keep up your blogs, I really enjoy them and am so glad Barbara Hoffman turned me on to them. Audrey
Green Grapes that are cold and that are hard topped with a glob of sour cream and topped with dark brown sugar., IMPORTANT do not mix together..
people who think they wont like it do usually like it alt.
GINGY
DORA
ANTHONY TROLLOP
since i am old i can not remember why i want Anthony Trollop
So my guests for an interesting dinner party are:
Alan Dershowitz, Teri Fryer, Mark Levin, Bill Reilly, Deborah Lipstadt,
Allan Marcus, Chris Christie, Bill Clinton, Mel Brooks and the person who most agrees with the aforementioned people, Ilene Beckerman.
The food will be catered by Sheila Nadler, the wines will be outrageous, and GUARANTEED, the conversation will be very interesting.
Hmm I have to think about this. The party will either be potluck or catered–Gay will tell you how I hate to cook. The invitees are what require thinking. I love good story tellers so you and Gay would be invited. I’d love to meet you. Gotta thinkabout everyone else. Will reply again when I’ve decided. I wonder who would actually come ???!!! (Living or dead).
I like you list of 8 guests for the dinner party. I would choose a few of yours ….Arthur Miller, Churchill, Lincoln and Shakespeare, Susan B. Anthony, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Cleopatra ….to shake things up.
Hard cold white grapes, sour cream on top, Dark brown sugar on top.
do not mix or stir..!!!!! even people who do not particularly like any of these ingredients love this dessert.
GINGY
DORA
ANTHONY TROLLOP
I would probably be overwhelmed to host this party. My late husband and I used to host a big party every year…most of my favorite people would be there. We would have 100 people at least. I would always reach a point of feeling overwhelmed because there were so many wonderful interesting people in attendance and no way I could have a meaningful exchange with all of them. I would love to have a dinner party with just me, Charles Bukowski, and YOU. That would be amazing
Jesus
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
George Washington
Jane Austen
Freddie Mercury (so infatuated with him at moment)
I would invite my friends or relatives. Fame is not important, just how you treat your fellow humans. Love your blogs…and I would invite YOU, Gingy.
Everyone has such interesting people I am just so boring…
I would invite my mother (I really miss her cooking! And her too) and my sisters. Just the 5 of us with all the personalities, crazy family stories, food and lots of laughing. Miss that.
In addition to the people you’d invite, I’d invite:
you
Mark Twain
Leonard Cohen
Lilly Tomlin
Richard Pryor
Charles Dickens
Charlie Chaplin
Elaine May
Mike Nichols
Charlotte Bronte
My dinner party would include Edward deVere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and, IMO, the real Shakespeare, Pat Conroy, Lewis Grizzard, Harper Lee, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Mitchell, Jesus, and Kristin Wiig. My table only seats eight.
What a wonderful idea! Here’s my list (and I’m having it catered).
All 6 wives of Henry VIII
Abraham Lincoln
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Michelle Obama
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ernie Pyle
Emma Thompson
David Letterman
Update: Ravel can’t make it. I’m inviting Wittgenstein.
Today I’m gonna be thinking *why* almost no women come to mind. Guess I’m just an MCP at heart, sigh.
Hmm. A boys’ club, pretty much. Would be fun to see who I could get to drink too much.
Simone de Beauvoir
The Buddha
Elizabeth I of England
W.A. Mozart
Paul of Tarsus (St. Paul the Apostle)
Maurice Ravel
Teilhard de Chardin
Nikola Tesla
George Washington
Walt Whitman