In January, Kimpton Hotels (kimptonhotels.com) introduced diet-conscious breakfast, lunch and dinner selections designed by the nutritionist Joy Bauer, each under 500 calories and available only via room service.
As you might imagine, the menu runs the gamut of breakfast, lunch and dinner selections: waffles, French toast, sandwiches, chicken, seafood, pasta, desserts.
My routine was this: On Saturday morning, surrounded by my cookbooks and recipe file, I would make dinner selections for each night of the week, then write a shopping list.
While this makes it more complicated for the service staff when giving the correct dinner selections to everyone, it does cut down on the rampant card switching that goes on when the bride and groom have preselected the seating.
In light of my husband's dismay at the inaccuracy (unauthenticity?) of our Thanksgiving dinner selections, and in the interest of exposing our daughters to mainstream culture, last year during Thanksgiving week I decided to enlist our daughters' help in researching what the Pilgrims enjoyed at their Thanksgiving feast.
During dinner, a selection of French wines, and French and Belgian beer will be offered.
(At dinner, a selection from an old Trotters menu that has had its day is an intrusive anomaly that should be integrated or cashiered).
Sherry, because of its unusual production method and the unexpected aromas and flavors it presents, is often consigned in the public imagination to the stuffy, dusty sitting room, or to the after-dinner drinks selection.
After dinner, four selections of house-made amari one infused with dandelion and rhubarb, another with blessed thistle smooth the descent back underground, making easy the way home, prophecies of pinsa fulfilled.
Indeed, if delivered alive to the fancier sort of restaurant (one that allows its customers to pick their dinner from a selection swimming in a tank) it may be worth as much as $100.
