The couple met all expenses of their 70th birthday celebrations in July 2010 – four days of dinners, receptions and other activities for 200 friends – according to an enthusiastic profile on the WyoFile website last year.
The day of dinner, another e-mail arrived with a link to the evening's mouthwatering menu and the address of the loft in the hip Palermo neighborhood where Kim does his dinners.
"He delivers probably four or five days' worth of dinner to my house every two weeks," Ms. Bircks said.
"The days of $2,100 dinners are history," Mr. Morling said.
There was relatively little to show for the two days of meetings, dinners and lunches attended by the leaders of 21 economies in the Pacific Rim region, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Professional partygoers had no problem dressing for the eight days of nonstop dinners, after-parties, store openings, fund-raisers, secret concerts, perfume rollouts and other assorted P.R. events disguised as fashion happenings.
This is the 29th year of the Sandestin Wine Festival in Destin, Fla. Held at the Village of Baytowne Wharf, the festival offers four days of wine dinners with celebrity chefs and wine tastings to showcase hundreds of wines.
Harken back to the days of TV dinners and recall the technology of the upturned corner.
Tables had been set up without a tent in the Rose Garden, but as the day of the dinner dawned there was a 30 percent chance of rain.
Really, after a full day of work, dinner and possible homework help, and before the bedtime routine, a full hour of "imaginative play" daily?
