The Chinese couple who run this no-name restaurant were willing to let me go into the kitchen and assemble the raw materials for dinner or lunch -- noodles or rice, squash, any unknown vegetable I saw, onions, garlic, lamb or eggs or chicken.
The fine art of shaping the human material for a dinner party has always stumped me, perhaps because human beings are far less reliable than food.
It was cheesy after-dinner material, vaguely inappropriate — and utterly effective.
Robin wanted some material for a U.J.A. dinner honoring Billy Crystal.
If you want something that's a little more involved and definitely dinner party material, try quickly pickling the sardines.
(Even Rush Limbaugh is beginning to sound like Georgetown dinner-party material).
To this end, he embarks on four separate eating adventures, each of which starts at the very beginning — in the soil from which the raw materials of his dinners will emerge — and ends with a cooked, finished meal.
Little said he hasn't yet settled on his material for the April correspondents' dinner.
You'll be pleased to hear that you've missed a lot of material about "excessive heat" and dinner parties – although, in truth, it's surprisingly well written, sometimes even elegant.
The cost of the package is $745 for a traditional room or $845 for a suite (double occupancy); guests can add a third night for $75. Classes, materials, breakfasts and Saturday night dinner are included.
