Days earlier, the Cipriani restaurant company, which runs the space, had announced that the tanking economy was forcing it to eliminate dinner service in the Grill.
George W. Bush, meanwhile, as distrustful of sophisticated nonsense as any Renaissance Briton, largely eliminated formal dinners and welcomed Vladimir Putin to the Crawford ranch with guacamole, fried catfish and cornbread.
FROM TRAY TO BUFFET -- You can easily turn this cocktail party into a buffet dinner by eliminating the toothpicks for most of the items and spreading the ingredients on platters and in bowls with serving spoons, forks and tongs.
A money- saving suggestion one year to eliminate Champagne before dinner was rejected.
Dinner parties have a way of eliminating the transaction, and making a meal a gathering rather than an appointment.
Several big investment banks, including Credit Suisse, Goldman and the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, are eliminating such weekends and asking their staffs to keep down the dinner guest lists.
BACK TO THE BEACH -- While the conference organizers were praised for its substantive content and how smoothly it was run, they drew the most cheers for a decision to eliminate the black-tie dinner that had ended each meeting for many years.
The table bread is a house-made flatbread smothered in butter, honey, cheese and fresh herbs, eliminating the need for a dipping sauce, any additional butter — or really even a dinner companion. .
This included not only eliminating toxic solvent-based cleaners and glue, but also the provision of a lunch or dinner, based on a nutrition programme (with which the company received technical support).
While at the moment it may not be the stuff of dinner table conversation, it's long past time that we had a national dialogue about eliminating these weapons of mass terror once and for all.
