Guests for dinner
I’m vaguely interested in those quick interviews with people – who would you invite to dinner (we’re talking celebrities/ well known people)? This is my “off the top of my head” list as at 4Pm today of people I’d invite over for dinner…
- Annie Lennox – I loved her as a singer, but later I have been loving her as a campaigner, an advocate. Intelligent, beautiful person.
- Barack Obama
- Bob Brown - has the most amount of integrity of any politician
- a cook/chef? – Maggie Beer, Jamie Oliver? Nigella (although she irritates me…)
- Annie Proulx – author of so many books I love
- Jeffrey Eugenides – author Middlesex, Virgin Suicides, edited My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories from Chekhov to Munro
- Rohinton Minstry – author A Fine Balance (one of my top 10 favourite books) . Do I have a different dinner party just for authors- or should I mix them up with *other* people?
I haven’t listed any film/theatre/artists/musicians. Gah
This sort of list-making just does my head head. I cannot make any decisions…
I would have to have a series of dinner parties.
Don’t you wonder about the dynamics in all of this? Would it matter? I just don’t want everyone to be, for example, completely overawed by being around the POTUS - Barack and be incapable of speech…
What would you cook?
Who would you invite? My only criteria is that they be alive … I have a separate dinner party planned for dead musicians (true – it’s in my drafts).
Kx
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Oooww..food for thought ~ a dinner party & hypothetical guest list (what would be on the menu). I think you’ve given me inspiration for my blog for #blogeverydayofjune
I was trying to think of who I would ask for dinner. Here is the list:
1. Jack White (for obvious reasons) he is a rock god
2. Sean Penn (awesome actor)
3. Barack Obama
4. Laurie Anderson / Lou Reed
5. Leonard Cohen
6. Peter Jackson
7. Judy Dench
It is actually very difficulty.
I cannot, repeat- I cannot believe I missed out on Mr Jack White! Thanks Kim. Incidentally when I saw Dead Weather live- what a southern gentleman- quite polite and lovely (as well as being great and wonderful and a rock god!)
K
oof… I’d be too afraid to cook for them!
Pen, food would be secondary to the whole thing. Of course I say that now but I know I’d want to do something *special* and would stress out about it for weeks!
I’d just have Nigel Slater and Nigella Lawson around for supper. I like them both, and they’re friends already so they could chat happily and I could just watch and join in when I had something to say. I am hopeless at small talk. And they wouldn’t want any fussy food so it would be lovely and relaxed.