Here's something to round out the week. There is a gourmet club called The Single Gourmet in California, a dating service without the long questionaires, apparently. From the press release:
"The best way to not only meet people but get to know them is over dinner at a table with six or more people," said McCarthy, an Irvine resident who started The Single Gourmet in Orange County nearly 15 years ago. "Single Gourmet members are upscale business and professional people who prefer keeping their private lives private." McCarthy does not disclose personal information for members. Instead, members who pay an annual fee may attend any of the events to meet others and disclose through conversation whatever information they choose to share.According to Dan Lewis, a long-time Single Gourmet member in his early 40s, food and wine draw out the best in what he is looking for in a companion. "If she's adventurous with eating food, then she's probably adventurous in life," he said in an article published by the Orange County Register, on February 3, 2005.
What's your take on this? Is this a better approach than traditional dating services, or would you prefer to know more about someone before you met them for the first time?
"long-time Single Gourmet member" just about covers it, no? Food, while important, is kind of a shallow base for a relationship. And when you get two big bad foodies in the kitchen, there's gonna be a fight. "He's making the guacamole smooth. Guacamole should have lumps." "I can't believe she degalzes at full heat. That sauce is going to be way too concentrated." "He'd better stop messing with that chocolate or it's gonna seize." Sing with me now:
I cook alone
Yeah, with nobody else
You know when I cook alone
I prefer to be by myself
I found that term incongrous too, that's hardly something that proves the validity of the concept, is it?
I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you
I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, this is fallin' off the bone.
I for one, think this is a great idea. I met my husband through the personal ads and while we did get to "know" one another via phone conversations before actually meeting, I can't say that either one of us let the real McCoy show through until we had spent some time together dating. I am an adventurous eater and you know what my husband ordered on our first date? spaghetti. I love him dearly, but it's been 10 yrs of slowly getting him to be more adventurous. I agree with the founder of the service that you can get a great first glimpse of someone by what they order. If you have a passion for food, what better place to meet than over a meal?
I worked forty-seven miles of hot line, I got a Michelin star for a necktie
A brand new sauce on the road side, and it's made out of capers and wine
Got a brand new garnish to put on top, and it's made out of edible flowers
Come on talk a little wok with me child, tell me who do you love?
Yours is butter, but I couldn't refrain.
Tonia-
Just goes to show that there's no rules, are there?
I'm assuming it wasn't a squid ink spaghetti...
Ana-
I give! Okay, one more:
Listen to me girl before you drink that wine
That Chardonnay's yours and this Bordeaux's mine
Pass it on over. Swirl it all over
Admire that nose, a big, bad cab is movin' in
Well done. I yield.