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August 28, 2012
Time was, eating out was simple. You'd go to a restaurant, sit and be waited on, consume your food and pay the bill. Simple, right? And then there were dinner parties, where you'd bring a nice bottle of wine and talk about the real estate market or the latest movie releases over a long table with some people you know and some people you'd just met.
In the last few years, however, the supper club has come upon the scene. What on earth is a supper club, you ask? Well, it is not a restaurant or a dinner party but rather both, all rolled into one. Regular folks like us began opening their dining rooms to perfect strangers - for a fee - and culinary enthusiasts who enjoy informal settings began turning out gastronomic delights on a weekly - or monthly - basis. These supper clubs aren't always in someone's home, mind you. Oftentimes, they're held in empty neighborhood warehouses or even on board someone's yacht.
Many of the clubs began as a reaction to upscale restaurants with celebrity chefs at the helm charging outrageous prices for their creations. Now, the trend has spread worldwide and traveling foodies can usually find a supper club in most major cities in the world where they can not only enjoy a fabulous meal, but perhaps even meet some new friends.
One of the best websites for finding supper clubs across the world is the Supper Club Fan Group. According to the site, there are as many as 300 supper clubs internationally, though other estimates put their numbers in the thousands.
Would you be inclined to strap on an apron and open your door to an itinerant group of foodies who may just happen to be passing through your town? Heck, it could become your own version of Big Night or Babette's Feast, both wonderful movies centered on the glories of food.
Sounds like fun to me. You game?
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Obviously, our host has never been to Wisconsin. Supper Clubs new? No sirree. They've been around for decades all over this state. A nice place to eat out with the family. A bar that pours a generous libation (brandy old fashioned is a biggie). A good steak is always available, Friday fish fry, Saturday Prime Rib, and Sunday broasted chicken. A lot of the original supper clubs have disappeared, but there are still a number around, and some new ones too. What our host describes does sound interesting. Some friends of mine in MN have a sort of supper club--they call it gourmet club and it is 4 couples that eat together every 6 weeks or so and rotate where and what they eat--they do the cooking themselves. I don't know if I could cook for foodie strangers.
paolos In reply to yesterdays er today's earlier questions...Wild Turkey 101 for sippin' Four Roses for mixin' and I found Cuba by way of a Naval vessel I was on that sailed into Gitmo Bay for 'reftray' which is refresher training. Cuba was hot which lent itself very well to open air bars and sand crabs.
I would not mind cooking for foodie strangers (well, obviously)but I mean without getting paid for it. I enjoy cooking, eating and even more, talking about it. Its fun for me when the people eating my cooking want to talk about every little detail, so if such a Supper Club existed around here I would definitely be up for it. I shall check the website.
paolos for my two cents worth --Elijah Craig for sipping and Early Times for mixing.
And if I lived in the U.K. that website would be great.
I agree with all that has been said about pain meds. There is no reason to not give meds to someone in severe pain especially if the doctor knows you and knows you're not in it just for the drugs.
Thanks everyone for your kind wishes.
korthal~I've been wondering how you are holding up, too...I wonder if you should maybe get a second opinion? I really have a problem with a doctor who isn't empathetic enough to save a patient from being in misery. I'm not familiar with your state laws, but there is a cream that contains cannabis extract and it does help with the pain and doesn't affect the mind...it's a good alternative medication if you can get ahold of any.
The supper club idea sounds like a lot of fun~I almost think it would be more fun to cook for strangers! Calf fries, anyone?
First, my choice of dinner movie: "My Dinner with Andre`", then, we had a chew crew, a group of ravenous carnivores that descended on various places for the sole purpose of ribs,booze,and current events. It was so much fun, and as we didn't cook, we didn't clean, either. I'd think the Minneeeeesota "Hot Dish" dinners would qualify, and the Weeeeeeesconsin "supper Clubs" were also like the Public House concept, weddings, wakes, and fish tales....
I don't know about y'all but it sounds like an invitation to me. Just tell me where and when.
KYC did you go fishing with Raul?
Today is my father's birthday. He'd have been 93. Happy birthday pops!
!!!!!!!!! !!!
RY thanks for reminding me .....The Big Night is one of my all time favorite movies. The scene where the front-of-the-house brother (Stanley Tucci) tells the Chef brother (a superb Tony Shaloub) that they will no longer be serving his seafood rissoto.....there's a long pause while Tucci waits for the explosion and finally, the Chef says "Fine. We will give them hot. dogs." OMG as just another Chef taking herself way too seriously for a long time, well.....you probably have to see it for it to be funny. But I am grinning and highly recommend the film.
chefdeb***I, too, eagerly clicked on the link only to be disappointed.........however, putting 'supper club' into my search engine brought up some that are this side of the pond, but have individual listings, no master likst that I could discern. Just think if all of us weren't scattered hither and yon......you betcha' we'd be havin' a great supper club for real. Now, it's just virtual. But, we do have a great chef at our kitchen helm.....and lots of good little sous chefs running around.
Yes all, our group would make a great supper club. Fine food and libations with interesting conversations. I never saw Big Night, but have heard a lot about it. Love the cast. I can't think of my favorite "dinner" movie. I guess I'll have to just say the food fight scene from Animal House is the best I can recommend.
The Big Night and My Dinner With Andre are both great food films. But you should also see Babette's Feast--at first you really wonder where it's going, but the end is so worth it!
Road Yacht .... Took awhile, but.......No left over cold pizza
I hadn't heard of the supper club for a fee. But there were those dinners that went from house to house with each person being responsible for a course.
**because I suffer from brain drain, someone, I'm sure, will let me knw what they were called.....progressive dinners?
Chef Deb ... One of my favorites
Andy, yes, Progressive dinners. I haven't done one of those for awhile, but always found them great fun. Sometimes there was just too much food and not enough time--not a bad problem actually...
I Marjorie.....one couple we knew, threw in an extra little bit......they had transport themselves in inventive ways. Piggy back, tricycle, pogo stick.......since cocktails were involved, it was a lot fun.
Kentucky Curmedgeon~Your post on your Gitmo Cruise reminded hauntingly of my own baptism into 25 months of seaboard life. The shakedown cruise on the USS Macon, hot summer of 1955 and several trips back are seared inn my memory. We got thhe coveted "E" for excellence and an original from Al Capp of Lil Abner fame which said " I heard about your getting the "E". You probably think you are good but you ought to see my mammy when she draws a bead".
more on the honor rollJulie, Julia works for me. Traveling cuisine isn't new...food has been on the move for a looooong time. Latest trend isn't the supper club, but rather the traveling restrauant. Many are taking their food on the road, parking in different neighborhoods for the cooking-challenged to enjoy.
A favorite of mine is the "Bring a Dish" Club that involves different neighbors all bringing a seperate dish from a set menu. The menu usually varies in type of cuisine, from Russian to Italian, to Carribean. I attended on when I was visiting friends in Charlotte, NC and loved it.
korthal, I have great sympathy with you when it comes to docs and their aversion to prescribing pain meds. They are like that in this little burg and I have wanted to choke a few.
All your posts made a good read. I'm in cardboard carton hell, packing up to move house the day after tomorrow, so no time to talk. I might vanish for a few days - but I will be back.
HAZEL*****Good luck with all that!!! We'll be thinking good positive thoughts for you as you relocate and start on a different path.
Ramen noodles,anyone?
Hazel ~ Best wishes on your move and all the best in your new home.
HAZEL:
Good luck with the move. I hope it doesn't take you too long to set things straight.
Best wishes and much happiness in your new home.
We'll all be here waiting for your return. And hope you'll have a good tale to tell us.
Paolos, my son has a birthday today. Happy blessed birthday to your DAD!! RY--THEY HAVE ALL KINDS OF RECIPES FOR RAMEN NOODLES, YUM. HAZEL-THINK OF IT AS A JOURNEY TO A NEW TOMORROW. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU! I THINK THIS KIND OF SOCIAL GATHERING WOULD BE INTERESTING, I'm IN.
CHEFD.....................I'm coming to your house for supper club, can I stay the night..................huh, huh, huh........can I?????????????????????
KORTHAL.....................I am so sorry about what you are going thru. Our doctors are quite free w/ pain meds, I think it is cruel that you have to be in pain. Thinking of you, I hope you heal quickly....................
HAZE...................thinking about you as you journey into your new home.............you will make it special & yours I have no doubt.................
KC................what about Maker's Mark? mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........I love that creamy burn....................
Better reading today - wish I had time to join. Feeling a bit like the White Rabbit!
Good to you all! Oh, and Turkey 101 for sippin. No mixing... Laters
KYC ~ You answered the two horned question handily. Kudos to you. I don't think I've sipped the 101. If you have an opinion about my query to rwh, I am all eyes. rwh ~ I will give Elijah Craig a go. Is that the 18 year? I had a chance to try Pappy van Winkles or Old Pogue my last trip to the Kentucky Commonwealth and opted for the Old Pogue. Have you tried either?
George Hall ~ Did you go fishing with Raul? I know someone out there did.
IMARJORIE....................one of my all time favorite movies & you're correct, the food fight scene is unbelievably great.................."what am I? A zit, get it?" ( I'm sure I somehow mangled that, but I tried..................)
I am not a club person. Joiner I am not. I just kind of drift around and eat wherever I end up. Family Friends Here There Everywhere. Graze where I land. I am a single malt man but have a taste for corn liquor. Cognac slightly warm in a snifter while watching the flakes fall is so tasty and a port with cheese or chocolate ain't bad at'all. I like music with food. Jazz. Leo Kottke. Cohen. I like Little Plates and lots of variation. I say grace silently and gratefully. I always drop something on myself.
I always leave a little somethin for the server....even as the proprieter buys my meal when I do refrige repairs....
I am of the same cloth as TT i that I am not a joiner,except for my wine club.And Cngnac or a lesser but still good brandy when the snow falls wnad with a good cheese fondue is hard to beat if you are in a nice warm and cozy cabin in the mountains during said snow fall, For a good eating sequence remember the scene in Tom Jones in the road side inn. The lead was Albert Finney. It was at once a good food sequence , funn and sexy all at the same time.
Miss Bebe ~ I once ordered a Crown on the rocks. She brought me a Maker's Mark. I sipped away then told her it wasn't Crown. She said "We were out of Crown, it's Makers Mark. The bartender said it tastes the same." I transported the glass to the bar on my two wobbly legs and told him, It doesn't.I never darkened their doors again. I otherwise may have taken a liking to that libation. I shoulda rapped his knuckles.
OPAAAA!
(I think that translates to "your cheese is on fire!!")
Carol, I loved Babette's Feast. ...a lovely film.
For your dining and viewing pleasure, compliments rwh1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezjznL9NzM
There are those of us in the Village who are too young to
have seen this. I am not one of those,
but some are, some are.
Missjane, you know I love potato salad, solid potato salad. Take my plate, fill it up and bring it right back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdVUXyEaJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-spBDcJyk
and of course Chef Deb will verify this, I a Chef cooks carrots and peas in the saame pot, you may want to eat somewhere else.....
No new topic yet again today?
I'm up this early because some fool called me at 5 am edt to say good morning.
Hung up when he realized he had the wrong number.
No apology.
How rude.
5 am edt!
Not likin' this New Format ....... Again .......
"To Sleep ... Perchance to Dream" .......
There is something to be said about that first cup of coffee
in the morning, freshly brewed, the aroma filling the kitchen and filtering
into the hallways and outer rooms. Then to take that cup outside,
breathe in the new morning, the scent of imminent rain overpowering the smell
of coffee. It’s a good time to sit down, rock for a bit, watch the sun rise, offer
up a new prayer, open the morning paper, agitate the brain. There is something to be said about a brand
new day. G’ morning all. I pray yours is a blessed one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pEOUbr9yo
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JAX. Blow out your candles!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but who’s counting?
Paolos,The coffee sounds great while you rock and breathe the fresh air but the quiet stillness is the best!
Good morning! So gorgeous here its hard to believe whats going on down South--hope all of you have your hatches battened down and are out of harm's way.
BEBE--there is a PERMANENT guest room for you here!
RWH1--yes, Tom Jones! Classic eating scene! Very young when I first saw it, but it hit all the right notes and would if I watched it today.
RY--I concur, Sir.
PAOLOS--you made me smell that coffee here.
JAX Greetings and Birthday Feliciatations!!!!
Paolos~ Rau and I didn't moove in the same social circless at the time I being a young Marine private and all. Amazingly, Guantanamo City was still open to visitors and several of our people went over on liberty but I didn't. Jaxz~ thanks to Honorable Mr. Poalos I know today's your birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Paolos~ Rau and I didn't moove in the same social circless at the time I being a young Marine private and all. Amazingly, Guantanamo City was still open to visitors and several of our people went over on liberty but I didn't. Jaxz~ thanks to Honorable Mr. Poalos I know today's your birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
MissChefDeb ~ I was hoping it would wake up the Village.
Missmagicangel ~ Stillness? In the morning? Are you kidding
me? The sun rising, the birds singing, the flowers blooming, Talk about
noise. Rustle that paper, stomp those feet. Sleepy time is over, wake up
miss puffy!
On the oyster kitchen, I would be remiss not to mention Mrs. Wilkes’ Boarding House in Savannah
down on the southern Georgia coast. It
has been a long time since I have eaten there, but at lunch time, the line to
get in may well cover three city blocks.
It’s all family style dining, you grab an open seat alongside some of
the other non-boarders and the platters and bowls of food just keep coming.
Good southern food and lots of it. But
the best part is bumping elbows with the common folk, riff raff tourists,
sweaty bankers and lawyers, shop girls.
Damm I like that word. Are there any retired shop girls out there? Come
on down to Mrs. Wilkes. My treat.
There is also The
Smith House up in the North Georgia mountains. Just wind your way north out
of Atlanta and follow the signs to Dahlonega.
If you can’t find the Smith House, just ask one of the locals or a
tourist that looks like he’s been there a day or two and you will be pointed in
the general direction. Once you are headed
up or down the right street, follow the smells or look for the lines of folk
clambering to get in. Again it is family
style dining at its best. You might sit
down next to some stodgy ol’ perfessor like Willie Trask (y’all remember Willie?) or some refined socialite
writer like Miss Eve (not to be
confused with MissIve and that could
be why she goes by the name of (Miss)
Georgia (to be associated with but
not confused with the state of the same name) instead. How is that for a run on
sentence MisssPark? If you are truly
blessed you might end up next to some old codger like Ivan or Eli or oneof the Halls of Montezuma or that Smokey fellow wherever he may be and
you will be regaled with some unbelievable tales that almost sound credible.
Do they have anything like that up yonder in the all too civilized
north?
Nope. Not in these parts anyway. My original restaurant in the boatyard had something to that feel however as boatyard workers and wealthy wooden boat owners gathered at breakfast and lunch and ate whatever I served that day. I knew my customers well and loved them all so I knew little quirks and nuances (you would be amazed at important the cooking of one's eggs can be). Dinner was a little more commercial. (and not a boatyard worker in sight!) but oh, I would looooove to go to Mrs. Wilkes or Smith House.....
Perhaps further north there are some places like that....our birthday girl may know of some in her neck of the woods.
You're on a roll Paolos...keep it up! xo
By the way just got my morning Email which did not provide a new topic---we will just have to keep checking the back door.
The back door is open.
Paolos~ I met Mrs. Wilkes once when I was Master of the Post at Savannah...she autographed one of her cookbooks for me. THen of course there's Dillard House up in Dillard GA.