Earlier this weekend, I posted my menus and plans for entertaining in our backyard. Well, everything was amazing! It was a huge success in recipes, planning, executing the actual cooking/grilling and the comfort of our accommodations. I believe that we have set up a place where our family and friends can go to relax and enjoy all that surrounds the "islands of food and wine."
This morning on the Adirondack bench on my porch, as I was devouring a toasted onion bagel with cream cheese and an Italian Roast coffee, I read the June issue of Town & Country Magazine. In their ON THE TOWN article, I read about restaurateur Danny Meyer and his new restaurant. In a section of Q&A with Mr. Meyer, one of his statements really stood out to me. He said, "Restaurants have become the one place in our culture where people actually stop doing and take time to be. Humans connect at the table more effectively, it seems, than at almost any other place in their lives."
I can relate to this statement and wholeheartedly agree. Only, for me, this feeling doesn't only occur at a restaurant. It can happen at home too. I have tried and succeeded in achieving this at our table, inside or out, within myself and for my guests as well.
My reference to our toasted marshmallows and wine is not about what we actually ate and drank around the campfire. It was just the fact that we were all there talking and laughing while in camp chairs and on rocks; wine, beer and even coffee in hand; and hanging sticks over the fire with melting jumbo marshmallows on the tips of them. That's what it is all about for me. Creating that opportunity and atmosphere to converse and "just chill."
Here's to the start of a wonderful season of all things outdoors!
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