A more appropriate dinner substitute would be sautéed seitan and vegan baked potato.
It's a white tablecloth place, with warm yellow walls, an open kitchen, potted plants, shaded lighting, a charming little back-lighted bar, appropriate dinner music and a red rose in the middle of each table.
On the first night, when Maggie asks her grandmother how she and her grandfather met, Alice tells her, "I hardly think that's appropriate dinner table conversation".
If you're still not sold on a sweater and skirt as the appropriate dinner-in-the-castle look, consider the legendary "little black dress". It's very much a part of the fall fashion scene and can be changed nightly by adding and subtracting jewelry, scarfs and belts.
Gallagher's flan is an excellent one, silky, light and surrounded by lots of caramel sauce, an appropriate ending to a fiesta dinner.
As people finish eating, songs like Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" facilitate an appropriate shift in mood from dinner to dessert.
But speaking on the BBC on Sunday, Liu Xiaoming, China's ambassador to the UK, said the president was "not here for a debate about human rights" and suggested bringing up the issue at the dinner was not an appropriate way to behave.
Introducing age-appropriate dinner-table debates, perhaps from topics in the news or on television, which can provide opportunities.
Would his daily uniform a jacket, a tie, and a starched white shirt with a spanking clean collar be appropriate for dinner at the White House?
It was an appropriate statement for the Dolley Madison Ballroom, named for James Madison's gracious wife, whose White House dinners smoothed feathers.
