What author you would like to have dinner with (or any other meal) --- and what would you serve?
gmgemeaux@aol.com
I would choose Katherine Forrest because I love her classic 'CuriousWine'. I would serve a light meal with lots of atmosphere (scented candles), wine with bread, pate, caviar, escargot and other special delicacies...
EvieD@aol.com
I would choose Pat Conroy and use the time to talk to him about writing another book! I would serve him manicotti, salad and bread and olive oil for dipping. Then I would just sit down and listen to his marvelous tales.
MFletc@aol.com
Thomas Harris.....Fava beans and a nice chianti......couldn't resist!!!!! For real.. Gertrude Stein... serve something from the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook....
Sandn2shoes@aol.com
John Grisham with grits and barbequed shrimp done Charleston style!
C14525@aol.com
Being a Southerner, I think I would like to have Truman Capote and Harper Lee come to dinner. We could talk about their books, especially the memories enshrined in "To Kill A Mockingbird" and I would serve all my Southern favorites...fried chicken with milk gravy, black-eyed peas, mashed potatoes, fried okra, cornbread, and a big plate of cucumber slices, celery sticks, green onions, and radishes. Instead of big glasses of iced tea, we would be wicked and have big glasses of wine! This would all be served, of course, on a cool side porch shaded by big trees hung with Spanish moss. My dog would lie at our feet and two or three cats would weave in and out our chair legs. Pure bliss and fun!
WBtrez@aol.com
I would like to have dinner with Maya Angelou. She is one of my favorite authors and I think she is very wise.
larraine@erols.com
Wallace Stegner -French Onion Soup, Roast Beef (rare) with roasted vegs, Tossed Salad, Flan for dessert
Laura Lippman (writer of Baltimore Mysteries), Cream of Crab Soup, Shrimp, Scallops & Crab in a white wine sauce tossed with slivers of country ham, Crisp Tossed Salad, Fresh fruit
larraine@erols.com
Studs Terkel - breakfast - a big, long breakfast so we can talk forever! Or rather, so I could just listen!
Shell725@aol.com
I think it would be great to have one of those Murder Mystery dinners and invite Mary Higgins Clark! I'd leave the choice of food up to the caterers.
Nana1248@aol.com
The list is very long, actually, but two I could actually share any meal, snack or tidbit with are Jan Karon and Lilian Jackson Braun. I say both because they both live near Asheville No Carolina. Of course, not in the winter!
UCLAPlaya@aol.com
John Keegan. Beef Wellington and Chicken Marengo.
Dbcoop11@aol.com
I'd love to share a meal with Saul Bellow. I wouldn't serve anything; we'd eat out so I could give my full attention to his converstation. What an amazing writer--an optimist I believe, even after all he's seen of people and the world.
steph@aurb.org
It would most certainly be Fredrick Buechner. As for what I'd serve... I might try grilled portabellas and pasta, but most likely I'd lose my nerve and simply take him to a nice restaurant.
PANIVA@aol.com
Jane Kirkpatrick is the latest author I've been introduced to by a friend and find that I can't get enough of being saturated in her books which absolutely make me glow. Refreshing is the best word to describe this author who has so much talent she doesn't need to entice us with graphic sex and, shall I say, unneeded trashy language.We can't wait for her new one to be introduced in February 2001.
I would choose items from the improvised meals mentioned in her books as I too am a back to nature person. She would deserve one very special item such as thimbleberry pie. Oh, my aching back (from picking them 3 inches but the soil).
MoM3g2b@aol.com
I absolutely love the writings of Pat Conroy. He is currently working on a novel from the perspective of Rhett Butler of Gone with the Wind fame. Cannot wait to hear more about it. I would serve Southern Fried Chicken, slaw, biscuits and peach cobbler of course.....
rhsu@concentric.net
I would like to have any meal with Albert Schweitzer (Reverence for Life) or Mother Theresa (A Simple Path, In My Own Words, No Greater Love). They both possess intelligence , compassion for society and spiritual guidance.
FREEME771@aol.com
Richard Marcinko. Beer and steak pinwheels, kis.
BCollamore@aol.com
Margaret Atwood and I wouldn't cook; we'd go out. She's my age and multi-talented (criticism, poetry, fiction, etc.)
Sanplum@aol.com
I would like to have dinner with Madeleine L'Engle, who is not only a superb writer but also a brilliant musician and diarist as well. The spiritual dimension of her journals, reminiscent of C.S. Lewis, helped me through a difficult time personally; even more, they offer new discoveries with each reading. I would like to know more about her work at the Cathedral and how she balanced all her diverse creative energies so beautifully. I would like to ask her advice on how to keep the imaginative spark going after falling into the gulf of grief after losing a dear one, as she and I both have done. Thanks for asking an interesting question!
NoelWillis@aol.com
If possible, I would like to have dinner with Sharon McCrumb. My wife, who is a wonderful cook, might serve City Chicken (a braised, skewered kabob of veal and pork) mashed potatoes and gravy (from the City Chicken) fresh asparagus, a lovely garden salad, fresh baked biscuits, and a raspberry cobbler. We would like to hear all about the characters in her East Tennessee stories, especially Nora Bonesteel who lives up in the mountains. I believe she would be a wonderful guest.
PEWTUR@aol.com
I WOULD LIKE TO EAT DINNER WITH WILLAM ALLEN WHITE
Kclynn1525@aol.com
Tough choice. I would have to have a dinner party. With William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, and Emily Brightwell. Nora Roberts, Suzanne Brockmann, and Jane Austen.
sophiej3@earthlink.net
The author would be Charles Portis, whose deadpan comedy novels were recently reissued by Overlook Press. The meal would be lunch or dinner(I don't do mornings), wherever he likes in my town (you surely don't think I'm going to jump up and go to the kitchen with such an interesting guest?) The books, in paperback, are NORWOOD, DOG OF THE SOUTH, MASTERS OF ATLANTIS and GRINGOS, all fond, hilarious, portrayals of subcultures. His best known novel, TRUE GRIT, has never been out of print.
Pes107@aol.com
George Saunders. Meal - goats and gappers - or maybe fish!
sanboz729@aol.com
MARY HIGGENS CLARK, MYSTERY MEAT
Bigshermama57@msn.com
I would probably like to have dinner with Wally Lamb and if I had the time time I would prepare some homemade goodies, otherwise I would just get take-out. I've seen Wally on "Oprah" and I've read some of his articles in "The Hartford Courant" and he seems to be a regular guy. Besides, maybe I could find out from him how to get my husband and sons to do the laundry.
jimart@inct.net
I'd love to have dinner with James Dickey. I'd invite the best hair cutter in the city and get rid of his comb over. I'd serve my favorite, salmon cooked by my husband, and discuss his life and view point. He writes so powerfully that sometimes, when remembering a phrase, I can see the whole scene enacted before me. I'd also enjoy having Stephen King and his wife Tabitha, but I'd be at a total loss to find something to say that he hadn't been asked 10 billion times.
DDobrjansk@aol.com
I would thoroughly enjoy having dinner with Tom Clancy (and of course I would take the opportunity to ask him to autograph my first edition copy of "The Hunt for Red October"). It would be interesting to discuss plot lines, his opinion of Alec Baldwin's and Harrison Ford's portrayals of Jack Ryan and get an insight into his thoughts on politics, the military, terrorism and other subjects.
I would serve something truly American and perhaps pedestrian by some standards. A meatloaf coated in a special barbecue sauce (my wife makes a savory smoky one that kicks ---), garlic mashed potatoes (made from scratch), string beans topped with slivered almonds and fried bread crumbs, and a cinnamon apple sauce. Desert would be key lime pie and/or Mississippi Mud pie. To accompany this meal, I would serve a good amber beer with the main course (Sam Adams or a local microbrew like Saranac); to compliment desert it would be coffee laced with Kaluha followed by cigars and single malt scotch (Glenfidich, Laproaigh or Sciapa.) Tom if you are interested, the invitation is open.
PATCAP@aol.com
Dean Koontz, Sauerbraten dinner
DCCJ1@aol.com
If I could go back in time, there would be no question as to whom I would invite. I would ask Ayn Rand right after publication of Atlas Shrugged. I would present a meal befitting John Galt's philosophy. All ingredients would be of the absolute finest quality but exude simplicity elegantly. Additionally, I would have Ms. Rand's favorite pianist playing Fryderyk Francois Chopin's compositions throughout the evening. Falling Waters by Frank Lloyd Wright would be the setting for the evening and Ms. Rand would be chauffeured to and from the residence in an open 1936 Auburn supercharged model 852 boattail speedster.
LMorris804@aol.com
I'd like to have breakfast with Emily Dickinson, outside if the weather permitted. We'd have a pot of tea, some strawberry scones with heavy cream and conversation.
Xdaniel@aol.com
I'd love to have dinner with both Stacey Richter ("My Date with Satan") and Mary Gaitskill ("Bad Behavior"). They are both fascinatingly bizarre short-story writers and are both extremely good looking. I think I would serve lots of aphrodosiacs.
Kreckmd1@aol.com
Stephen Ambrose, Prime rib, asparagus with a nice cheese sauce, Waldorf salad, and mashed potatoes. My wine would be Rioja Glorioso Tinto 1973. Bananas Foster for desert, regular coffee and brandy of choice.
CatTigerLi@aol.com
I would like to have dinner with Terry Pratchett (The Truth) in an English pub, preferably in England.
Cairo1953@aol.com
This is a difficult question - there are so many talented writers. But if I must pick one, I'd choose Alice Hoffman. Since all of her stories center on "magical powers, supernatural & "light witchcraft," I'd plan the following dinner:
- Preferred Month: October / Halloween
- Atmosphere: Aside from the usual Halloween decorations, I'd be sure to have candles in all the windows & throughout the house. Since Alice Hoffman always mentions a cat in all of her books, I'd be sure that my 3 cats would be part of this setting.
- Food: Vegetarian specialties; to include lots of herbs
- Entertainment: Tarot Card Reading Party
- Attire: Halloween Costumes; It wouldn't be hard to figure out what Alice would wear, since she loves to write about "Good-Witches." Thanks Alice, for all of your books - Fun reading!!!
DThomas201@aol.com
It would have to Stephen King and I would serve really red meat.
Andra1938@aol.com
I would like to have dinner with Joan Hess. We could have pork chops since a pig is a featured character in her delightful hilarious books.
cardlady5@juno.com
Stephen King . I would serve hearty "comfort foods". He always seems to be "just folks" in spite of sucess & wealth.
