Now is the time, ladies and gentlemen to make the difficult phone calls. You need to contact everyone who will be sitting around your table this Christmas and run the menu past them. This is, by no means a resignation that you will be offering them a la carte dinning whilst they are with you, its just useful to know if any of them have allergies or have turned vegetarian in the last 12 months.
There is a wonderful episode of Friends where the gang is forced to stay in New York for Thanksgiving. Monica is to cook the roast. Bit by bit, everyone persuades her to do something particular for the meal. Lies and emotional blackmail are used to ensure that individuals get what they want - do not let this happen to you, but make sure your guests are not likely to grow a second head if they eat Turkey!
Oh, by the way - Have you bought your chestnuts yet?
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Glad you didn’t forget the chestnuts! The poet and critic Jon Stallworthy, who died last month, wrote a beautiful account of buying and eating them at the roadside:
'Roast chestnuts, a shilling
a bag.' Shilling and bag
change hands by brazier light.
And there they stand shelling
plump kernels to plug
each other's mouth as tight
as with a kiss....’
One question chef? are you married? does your wife cooks too? ok maybe 2 questions
Who is Monica? is she a chef too?
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