#supper club

[goshyesvintageads]

Sheraton Corp, 1954

[triflingthing]

a supper club because girls love food

[hathsinsurvivor]

“The line between pleasure and revulsion can seem so very thin, if it even exists at all.”, supper club by lara williams

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan "Ring Them Bells" Supper Club, November 16, 1993

[morffyne]

[chefkevinashton]

The Edible Flower-Cookbook review

Photograph by Sharon Cosgrove It has been quite some time since I have reviewed a cookbook on this blog, not because I haven’t been offered cookbooks, publishers often send me press releases of their latest clutch of books….it is just none of the synopses have intrigued or peaked my interest. The Edible Flower on the other hand did that in spades. It is not just a cook book which uses edible…

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

and before you come for me in the tags/comments, yes, i know that these are not exclusive to wisconsin. these just happen to be some of the very wisconsin-esque foods that i grew up with. and yes, i'm sure there are some that i wasn't able to include. if i get enough recommendations for others, i'll happily make a part two!

(images not mine)

[yourfrankiethings]

Del-Bar, Wisconsin Dells, 7/20/24

exterior – 800 Wisconsin Dells Pkwy, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965 The Del-Bar has been in business since 1943 when Jim and Alice Wimmer took the plunge and bought an existing roadside restaurant known for its char-broiled steaks.  The restaurant had its 75th anniversary in 2018 when the third generation (two grand-daughters) of the Wimmers took control.  This large place is about tradition and the…

[mapsoffun]

The Palizzi Social Club is a curious throwback to a different time: open four days a week with only 30 seats, the only way to dine here is to either be a member or know a member (and even then, the number of guests a member can bring is limited to three). Originally opened in 1918, the only way to know you’re at the club is the neon sign on the transom: if it’s on, it means the club is open. 

The Palizzi’s experience comes with multiple rules: no photos of any kind of the interior (I checked to make sure taking a photo of the neon was OK), no excessive cell phone usage, proper dress required, don’t make too much noise or linger too long out front, and, uh, what happens there, stays there. They ask not to be blogged or tagged or reviewed, but if you go to their IG account you can see a lot of tagged photos of this neon sign as well as a few pictures, here and there, of the interior itself. 

I’m working on a larger piece on the notion of supper club-style restaurants after having been to two in the last year, but in the meantime, this banger from Helen Rosner at The New Yorker is very much worth reading.

[duaneburnett]

This Saturday! Supper Club Longtable Series at Shady Hazel Farm 🍽️ 7pm July 20 in Gibsons on Sunshine Coast BC Canada 🇨🇦 There are a few tickets still available to this weekend's dinner with Lucais Syme of Autostrada Osteria 🎟️ https://www.shadyhazelfarm.ca/events

ABOUT: We bring up Canada's most revered chefs to use local farm ingredients to create a 5 course tasting menu. These dining experiences are among the best in Canada with an outstanding wine list we collected over the year just for these dinners. The other dinners have sold out but we have just a few of these ones left. Hope to see you at the longtable. 🥂

Sunshine Coast BC Canada Facebook Page Events https://facebook.com/bc.sunshine.coast/events

hashtag #supperclublongtable #shadyhazelfarm #gibsons #event #sunshinecoast #summer2024 #thingstodo #supperclub #sunshinecoastbc #britishcolumbia #canada #lucaissyme #autostradaosteria #farmtotable #localfarm

[creamofthecroptop]

Book 4/12 - Supper Club, Lara Williams

Great read, considering I was so into it I read it in like 3-4 days. I may have also been motivated by not wanting to break my monthly book reading streak.

I could’ve read a shorter book though if that was my true motivation. I think any book that has to do with food is an easy read for me. Loved those little breaks between chapters where she gave recipe instructions on certain foods. Her description of them probably alludes to some of her internal struggles. If I was a better reader, I could probably make a stronger connection between them 😭

A book about women and hunger and taking up space. TW for graphic rape scene + body and self image issues

[letialia]

Osservatorio - March updates

#supperclub

[actualgoblinm]

Deprived myself for some time of the wonders of Books Written About Womanhood. Now I'm obsessed.

[getcultred]

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[travsd]

When Chesterfield Choked the Airwaves

November 21 was the birthday of James T. Drummond (1834-1897), the founder, 150 years ago, of the Drummond Tobacco Company. And that would probably be of little interest here but for the fact of Drummond’s most famous product, Chesterfields. And that too would be of little interest here as well, but for the fact that the brand (under later corporate owners) would become the sponsor of lots and…

[rantsintechnicolor]

When you get married on Monday…

The economy isn’t what it was. Children can’t have what their parents had. We can have a big wedding, a downpayment on a house, kids, or we can start a business. It is incredibly difficult to have all those things.

We’ve been to countless weddings, and the take away is: what a lovely party. Dinner, dancing, and a show. Don’t get me wrong. I love weddings. But I probably would have enjoyed planning one, and we had this idea to have the guests help pay in lieu of gifts, like a Kickstarter wedding. The more money that piled in would mean we could add things like a band, a bounce house for kids, and maybe one for adults, too, a venue upgrade, a cake upgrade, a bar upgrade, etc. But we had other priorities. And when you’ve been to countless weddings that were so enjoyable, it just seems like we don’t need to have one and we had other things planned for our money. 

In fact, money is why we got married. We didn’t need a public ceremony to prove to everyone we were committed. We didn’t need the family reunion that usually happens at weddings (my brother did that, and what a glorious occasion it was). I’m not even sure we would have had as well-attended a wedding as he did anyway, given we are queer and the majority of our family is Catholic and born again Christian. So, it’s just as well that we got married with our closest friends in our kitchen/dining room on a Monday. 

We decided to get married and did the deed two weeks later. We didn’t tell anyone except our officiant (we were her bride’s spinsters, lol). I got her deputized the Friday before with the county to perform the ceremony. We had our regular supper club on Monday, which made finding witness signatures easy. 

When we decided to get married, it was for the tax cut. This tax cut only works when one partner has a lower income or no income, favoring the folks where one can stay home to raise children, the folks that don’t both have to work to make ends meet. Which is pretty racist, as it turns out. But I digress…

I had long given up on the idea that I would have a wedding. I was excited. It was her idea. And it had recently become legal for us. She was very against the assimilatory nature of a wedding for queer folk like us. Fuck the patriarchy and being like those that wanted to reduce our rights. I found her a starter ring, because we were going to upgrade at some point, when we were done building our business. We were going to have the big party at some point too in the tasting room when it was built. But that was over eight years ago in December, and well, we have had other priorities and challenges in the meantime. 

When our guests arrived, we asked them to put the food on the sideboard instead of the table. And then announced our intentions to wed in front of them. Squeals of delight and surprise. Our officiant prepared some lovely remarks without being prompted. We didn’t prepare any. Someone had the sense to take a short video and some photos. Our officiant also got us a cake from a famous restaurant and hotel, piled high with pink and white chocolate curls. Honestly, we should have just had cake for dinner because it was so enormous. Exchange rings, kiss, feast, imbibe, hugs. 

Easy. Simple. Different. Delightful. Casual. So very casual. Very affordable.

My parents were unhappy. If our officiant knew in three days, surely I could have invited my parents. Yes. Perhaps. But they weren’t going to enjoy it. Not like the folks attending did. Eventually, they got over the snub and gave us the money they were saving for our wedding. We used it to buy a forklift.