Dinner Party Guest List--Any Ten People Who Ever Lived

After reading everyone else's lists, I'm now going to have to either expand my guest list or have another party. Spike Lee -- I love every movie of his I've seen. Nostradamus is also an excellent idea for a guest -- There's a lot I'd like him to clear up for us. Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Van Gogh, Maya Angelou, and for my eye-candy I would choose Fabio, because he's kind of the international symbol of female eye-candy and I'd like to know if there's any brain beyond that and well (really! )

Kara:
Nureyev may sulk all he wishes after he peforms LeCorsair. After Paul Robeson and Joan Baez sing all the songs I have chosen, there won't be any time for conversation anyway. I've got three arias for Caruso and am a bit concerned that there may not be enough time for Isaac Stern and Fredric Chopin to perform more than one number. So, I'll suggest that Nureyev either take a nap or make an early exit.

RA, you are spot on. Rudi can pirouette around the table and get his applause that way. Paul and Joan will have to do solos...I don't think their voices would blend.

Kara: They will blend. I just know they will. I'm requesting that Robeson and Baez sing Joe Hill together, among others, with the same sweet voices as when they first recorded that song. I have not the slightest doubt.

Kara! Welcome home!

Kara, her name is Mo Mowlan. Great choice, last I heard she was very ill, so I hope she can make it.


I like to add a few more guests if I could. Table's big enough to handle the crowd.

Tom Waits - never know what'll be on his mind
Ry Cooder - a musically visionary
Mike Myers - a funny, funny man
Bono, or any member of U2 - just cause I'm a fan
and Merlin - just to get the real scoop on Camelot et al.

Thanks,
Ceili

Kara, Kara, Kara: this is a fantasy dinner, therefore your cottage in Ireland is a fantasy cottage, i.e. a castle and so, of course, there will be plenty of room for the 10 of us!

Listen, if I really told who I want to have a fantasy dinner with, living or dead, it would include only 2 people (other than myself, naturally) from A2K...I took this whole thing very lightly.

Hello Ceili,

Of course! I knew Moylan wasn't right. (Love your signature. You must be Irish.)

Thanks, MA. Hmmm. Are you wangling to sit at my table? It will be a fabulous one, I guarantee. But I need some help with the guestlist. Will it be Kant or Jung? Kipling, Service, or Pyewackett? (Only Abuzzards who lived and died by Dlowan's Digression threads would know the last name.) Winston or Maggie? Homer or Chaucer? This is going to be more difficult than I thought.

I realize I have been invited to dinner, but have not as of yet proposed a list of my own. It is probably because as a fancy caterer, I need to form a co-ordinating team before I can plan the guest list. I will try to start there, as we shall dine al fresco, and Nostradamus shall go first on the list:

Nostradamus - to know ahead of time if the date needs to be changed
Buckminster-Fuller - to design a geodesic dome in case of rain
Aaron Spelling's contractor - to find people to build the dome, should we need it
Lydia from Fiori in Toronto - the flowers, we need the flowers
A nice Chairman-Mills rep - the rentals
Zoltan Szabo - my fine sommelier, to coordinate the wines
Myself - food, of course
Frater Luca Bartolomes Pacioli - to keep the books straight, and clip about Spelling's people if they mess up
Romy Prasad: Sous-chef, fine cook, horrid person, but has the inclination to denigrate staff if they suck, which I cannot do (and things can't suck, plus, I have dirt on him, so I could still be in control)
Shakespeare - to pen the menu descriptions in iambic pentameter

LOL, cav! Way back many moons ago, gautam mentioned that you would lose him as a guest if you did not do a vegetarian meal. He threw down the gauntlet, and I am not sure that you picked it up. He may have been hinting that you could go Indian. I read an article last week in the Irish Times by Ismail Merchant (of Merchant/Ivory fame) about his skill in creating marvelous Indian dishes, although such things as lemon dahl and pea puree might not meet with universal approval. We could begin with chilled avocado soup, move to a three-bean salad, enjoy a main course of mac and cheese, and -- what? vegetarians can't eat mac and cheese? We'll add some Boca Burgers on the side. You get the idea.

Nobody steps away from my table without a proper meal custom-tailored to their needs. Northern-style Vegetarian Indian it is for Gautam, as long as he promises not to insult me, being a fine cook himself, from what I hear....

For me, too, Cav. I'm a veg like Guatam. I was just spoofin. I'll bet you do a fabulous vegetarian meal.

We're all spoofin' here...but I can do vegetarian of all degrees, right down to vegan. No foolin': Here is a dessert I did for a vegan dinner not too long ago: Morrocan-spiced dessert 'risotto' with saffron, dates and pine nuts, cooked in soy milk, with a garnish of crispy candied carrot slices.

I've been mulling over what I would serve as the main course and I have it narrowed down to three. Which would you choose?

Oogruk Flippers
Cut the flippers off from the oogruk. Put the flippers on the seal in fresh blubber. Let them stay there for about 2 weeks. Take the loose fur off the flipper. Then cut them in small pieces and eat the meat.

Seal Head
Skin the seal. Cut the head from the seal. Cut the head into as small pieces as you can. Put into a pot of water, add salt. Boil plenty. When cooked, eat the meat. Break the skull and eat the inside of it, too.

Oogruk Intestine Soup
Wash the intestines very carefully. Push the inside meat off the intestine with a spoon. Then take the meat out of the intestine and wash again. Cook it in a pot with water. Cut blubber into little pieces and put them in to boil. Add salt

Osso, A guest list worth the wait. Thanks. You said, "On the men, I am partial to Marcus and to Benvenuto, since they made me understand that history, years ago, wasn't so far away from me, now." How so, Osso?

Rae, Intriguing and diverse list. Plus a lotta laughs. Will anyone else get a word in edgewise with Robin Williams at the table?

Gustav, Hmmm. Are you sure that Genghis and Attila won't team up with Adoph to give world domination another try?

Snood, I agree that James Baldwin is unique. Spike was filming a movie on my block last year. I saw him a few times. I wish I'd had the chance to talk to him. I thought that Do the Right Thing was brilliant. I would have liked to tell him that. I saw Lena Horne in her one-woman show on Broadway. WOW. Yes, a great beauty--and a phenomenal talent.

Kara!!!! I'm glad to see you here--or anywhere. Ponder, ruminate, cull, and then return with your list.

Raggedy, I saw Nureyev dance (with Dame Margot Fonteyn). Let him sulk all he wants. Just make sure he dances too.

Ceili, Merlin! A stroke of genius. Please report back to us with the scoop on Camelot.

Cav honey, You're working too hard. Can't the chef relax and enjoy a dinner? Let someone else do the work.

gustav...yummm...confit of oogruk flippers. My favorite.

You guys are

Sick, SICK, SICK!!!!




I like it.

Heh heh, I can relax once the meal is cooked. All us chefs work too hard. No worries.

gustav, Oogruk recipes are sooo 'Atanajurat: The Fast Runner'...like 2001, out of fashion already.... Need I recount the tale of the short-lived Inuit restaurant in Toronto, 'Sealed with a Kiss' that opened on the heels of Atanajurat's success at the Festivals? I thought not...

Cav, I forgot to give you full marks for



Snood, it is fun, isn't it?

I wouldn't know where to begin. Sigh.

gustav - hope SealPoet doesn't see that post of yours.