If you could have Dinner with any One Person

[kitwilliams]

Great thread. Responses obviously very full of thought. On that note...Hugh Grant. (Just read latest interview in Vanity Fair... )

[suzilightning]

my mom - almost 13 years and i still miss her.

OR

sara moulton - was going to say tyler florence but he would BE dessert

[elyse]

Jesus.

[NeroW]

Grant Achatz.

Uh, I mean, Peter Gabriel.

I second Simon's Zappa.

[KatieLoeb]

Wow - what a great thread! Such intellegent and well thought out answers and such a vast array of contemporary and historical figures. I'd have to agree with many of the suggestions thus far. Jefferson would be quite an interesting dinner companion, and being a Philadelphian, I'd have to include Benjamin Franklin as raconteur and interesting dinner companion as well. Moses would be up there for biblical/spiritual company. Being a dinner guest of the Medicis could have been quite educational. I'd love to have dinner with Bono if I had to pick a rock star. A true humanitarian. Oprah would be a top choice for contemporary women that I admire. And I'd love to have a one-on-one dinner/wine tasting with Andrea Immer. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with her after a dinner she hosted in Philadelphia and really enjoyed myself. But I'd want to pick her brain a little bit more about getting ahead in the beverage industry when it tends to be misogynistic in certain (not all) places.

[ngatti]

Simon Majumdar

Edited April 12, 2003 by ngatti (log)

[Wilfrid]

I think I know who Simon means by the Don, but I may be wrong. Prompts my choice of John Arlott.

Winona Ryder is also in the running.

[Lord Michael Lewis]

I'd like to dine with Rousseau; I have few questions for him. But seeing as he's long dead, it would have to be Michael Jackson.

[Jaymes]

Winona Ryder is also in the running.

Excellent choice -

Especially if one needs to add to one's inventory of silverware.

[ngatti]

I think I know who Simon means by the Don.

Probably Don King

[Lord Michael Lewis]

I think I know who Simon means by the Don.

Probably Don King

More likely to be mythical cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, scorer of 29 test centuries.

[Simon Majumdar]

I think I know who Simon means by the Don.

Probably Don King

Wrong, but wilf is right, Sir Donald Bradman. The greatest cricketer in the history of the sport. Think Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth rolled into one and then given some table manners

Winona is a great choice but I would skip dinner!!!

S

Edited April 12, 2003 by Simon Majumdar (log)

[Nick]

I was going to say the Dalai Lama, but in view of recent events, I think I'll now say Nick Gatti.

[ngatti]

I think I know who Simon means by the Don.

Probably Don King

Wrong, but wilf is right, Sir Donald Bradman. The greatest cricketer in the history of the sport. Think Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth rolled into one and then given some table manners

Winona is a great choice but I would skip dinner!!!

S

I was trying to be ironic, But I need more practice. Back to smiley training wheels.

Nick

[Varmint]

Mrs. Varmint, of course.

[Simon Majumdar]

Mrs. Varmint, of course.

Whipped!!!

S

[Varmint]

Mrs. Varmint, of course.

Whipped!!!

S

Guilty as charged.

[indiagirl]

OK, so my serious answer, it's taken me days to come up with this and I'm still not sure:

Leonardo da Vinci

Runners Up (or should it be Runner Ups) - Machiavelli, Toulose Lautrec and ...

[Chef/Writer Spencer]

back at the french laundry with bourdain, ripert, scott bryan and grant achatz there for running commentary....

[Blondie]

Daniel Libeskind

[helenas]

Jaymes

[ranitidine]

Jesus.

Great idea. Think of how much money you'll save on the wine bill.

[ranitidine]

Second choice: Bill Gates

A distant second. He dines at McDonald's!

[skybluewater]

Without a doubt, I would like to have dinner with a great wit, and one of the most fascinating men who ever lived: Winston Churchill. (Runner up would be another great wit, Oscar Wilde.)

[ranitidine]

Moses would be up there for biblical/spiritual company.

Only at a seder.