You have the opportunity to host a dinner party inviting anyone, alive or dead. Who’s getting an invite and what are you feeding this special group?
Invites head to:
Menu:
A curious mind,
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I’ll have to come back to this thread. Right now my list of living and dead is between 150 - 250!
Smoked meats, mountains of smoked meats would be the entree.
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The invites are hard but the menu would be dead simple
Id open the bar, prepare the glassware, iced cubes and cocktail fixins. Dinner would be a table of tapas styled nibbles on one long buffet table. Conversation flowing foods.
Invites, well, Marilu Henner would be invited so the evening would be commited to memory for all time. 
Music would def be involved so Keith Richards and Joe Walsh for riffs and ridiculous storytelling. But wouldnt it be cool to include a few young guns from the food world to throw down in my kitchen.
Tricky. And I may want to change my mind on all counts. My dining table will only seat eight, so with Mrs H & me, that’s six to invite and, of course, it has to be equal numbers of men and women. Here goes
Rick Stein - chef and all round good bloke. He is the only TV chef who I would invite to my home. Having eaten at his restaurant, I’d like to tell him, in good humour, that if your menu says “scallops”, there’s a requirement for it to be more than just one.
Thomas Brough - grandfather. So much I could have asked him, had I only know stuff before he died.
Robert Nivelle - soldier. Commander in Chief of the French Army, 1917.
Sandie Shaw - singer and unknown recipient of boyhood lust
Emmeline Pankhurst - suffragette and fellow Mancunian
Mary Magdalene - what gossip she could spill over the course of the evening
As for food (and I’m assuming dinner is in early summer):
To start - not sure whether to call this tapas, mezze or mixed hors d-oeuvres, but a few “help yourself” salady dishes. Easy to prepare in advance. This is not a meal when there should be any last minute poncing about.
Main course - roast lamb (local Herdwick), roast spuds, peas, carrots, mint sauce.
Cheese - Bourne’s Cheshire, Shorrocks Lancashire, Blackstick’s Blue. Bread, celery, chutney. Laugh at that General Nivelle - we now make a greater range of cheeses here than in France.
Dessert - a classic trifle
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Wow you had that detail in your head?! Man I am impressed by just the incredibly specific detail. Even if you change one note, its so interesting as is.
Yes. Sandie Shaw is often in my thoughts, even 50+ years on 
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So you were one of many puppets on a string 
Hah! Absolutely, man
You’re not alone
May I suggest you set a limit to the number of chairs at the table? Otherwise, we’re getting into banquet hall territory!
Its your dinner party, plan as you see fit. My dinner party doesnt involve formal seating; more of a hang with a wild kitchen throwdown occuring off the living area😀
It is my impression, HO’s are up to most challenges.
Steve McQueen. He can have anything he wants!
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I don’t have a large family alive around me so my guests would be My mother and father and everyone related going back as far as possible, a many many generational family banquet!
Menu would be lobsters, corn and blueberry pies (and chocolate bars). Setting would be outside by the sea. That would be heaven.
Imagine meeting all those great greats that you’ve heard stories about. What a fun party.
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I would invite all of the friends and family I loved that have died. These dinners often happen in my dreams, as a matter of fact.
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Okay. Here’s my first five: George & Martha Washington, Dr. Tom Dooley, my Mom & Dad. With a lot of pain, I think I can get it down to 10. (12).
Go Jimmy!
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Add to the first five: My Aunt Eileen and Uncle Peter, John, the Apostle, St Patrick, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the two of us. That’s 12. I’ll work on a “B” List if any here have to cancel.
The menu…just tasty cuts of meat. Surely your special dinner invites deserve more than that😀
What are you feeding them?
I fear this is going to cost me as much as a country club wedding reception…
Well here goes:
CANAPE / Appetizers
Marinated Shrimp on toast. as here
And this:
Beverages
Jameson Irish Whisky (neat)
Arnold Palmer (for the teatotlers)
Sweet Tea
Stroh’s Bohemian Beer (remember it’s a Bar-b-que)
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Bourbon (no mixers offered. Well, rocks, maybe)
Main
Texas Hill Country-type bar-b-que
Dessert
A chocolate torte. Like this:
After dinner refreshments
Irish Coffee
Spanish Coffee
Dr Pepper
Oolong Tea
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I only have one last question… where’s my invitation? Man go big or go home! Well played!
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