Next month, the restaurant will offer two versions of the dinner, for $85 and $100 a person, at only two tables for 10 each night.
By the summer, at least one other Manhattan restaurant was serving a version of the Nixon dinner menu, at $10 a person, and an article in The New York Times bore the headline, "Chinese Restaurants Flower Following Diplomatic Thaw".
A few nights later, we discovered a more sophisticated, albeit less spectacular, version of the Chez Ali dinner, at Dar Marjana, an elegant restaurant in the medina, reached by walking through a long lantern-illuminated tunnel, with better food and a much more sedate, yet elegant floor show.
In 2014, Elysabeth began a podcast version of The Dinner Party, which was picked up by WGN Radio's WGN Plus in August of 2015.
After that we had a polite version of the vulgar cocktail: dinner on the beach.
Arthur Penn served a stint this season as an executive producer of "Law and Order," and Norman Jewison has directed a version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Dinner With Friends" to be broadcast later this year by HBO.
The same team had previously shown that DMS is the chemical cue that triggers certain seabirds to forage for krill - or as the scientists put it "the birds' version of a dinner bell".
Feeding the Audience, Body or Soul THAT long-running ritual of audience participation and pasta, "Tony n' Tina's Wedding," is still giving Off Broadway theatergoers one version of the classic combination of dinner and a show.
Update: Plenty of other politicians are getting into the act - to the extent that John Podhoretz froths that the SOTU is turning into "a tearjerking version of the White House correspondent's dinner.
