Being a 'foodie' and sommelier, she led the way in orchestrating the dinner, from recommending food and wine pairings, to the order in which we would taste each component on the table.
After a day's formal deliberations, senators would continue informally over a dinner orchestrated by the symposiarch (architect of symposiums).
Unlike other venture outfits that orchestrate expensive dinners with journalists, for example, Pear organizes events at its offices for cash-strapped founders and students that feature VCs and renowned CEOs as speakers.
Co-Op Food & Drink, 107 Rivington Street (Essex Street), in the Lower East Side, which is run by the folks behind the pop-up dinners orchestrated by the Guerrilla Culinary Brigade, is launching a five-week brunch program.
"You sell books," he said, explaining the carefully orchestrated point of his dinner.
The sold-out $150 dinner was orchestrated by Brent Bozell III, director of the conservative Media Research Center, whose sometime slogan is: Proud Member of a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
Now armed with personal terrorists, he crashes and holds up a black tie dinner party orchestrated by the "Big Man" in his alter ego as philanthropist L. Thompson Lincoln.
But orchestrating a Thanksgiving dinner for large numbers of people requires more planning than the invasion of Normandy.
Hidden cameras at the dinners, which were orchestrated by the Ketchum public relations unit of the Omnicom Group, captured reactions to the lasagna and to the dessert, Razzleberry Pie, also from Marie Callender's.
Lately I have been experimenting with a new form of the cooperative dinner, one so completely orchestrated that I ask the guests to prepare recipes that I supply.
