Post by Yam Sham on Oct 31, 2008 2:00:46 GMT -5
Just got a hold of this today.
It's a really hilarious book on entertaining and cooking from Amy Sedaris (Strangers With Candy, Wigfield) that harkens back to a time when entertaining was charmingly old-fashioned "like courtship, or back-alley abortions."
I'm not very far in, but I've already learned all kinds of charming bits of info. For instance;
"Never outdress the hostess unless you are the guest of honor, or a transvestite."
"A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink. Plus you'll know which guest is a junkie whore or gutter hyper, and you'll know what else to hide. Count your stash or remove the label from your prescription bottles."
"Accentuate the positive, medicate the negative!"
It even has an entire section dedicated to cooking for the munchies.
Anyone else been have this?
What were your favorite bits of advice/recipes?
It's a really hilarious book on entertaining and cooking from Amy Sedaris (Strangers With Candy, Wigfield) that harkens back to a time when entertaining was charmingly old-fashioned "like courtship, or back-alley abortions."
I'm not very far in, but I've already learned all kinds of charming bits of info. For instance;
"Never outdress the hostess unless you are the guest of honor, or a transvestite."
"A good trick is to fill your medicine cabinet with marbles. Nothing announces a nosey guest better than an avalanche of marbles hitting a porcelain sink. Plus you'll know which guest is a junkie whore or gutter hyper, and you'll know what else to hide. Count your stash or remove the label from your prescription bottles."
"Accentuate the positive, medicate the negative!"
It even has an entire section dedicated to cooking for the munchies.
Anyone else been have this?
What were your favorite bits of advice/recipes?
