Dear Christmas Party Consultant,
This Christmas my friends from abroad will be coming home and will be spending the Christmas in my house. One will be coming from the U.S.A.; the other from Japan; the third from Italy. The last time we had a get-together, I prepared an all-Italian menu. My friends from Japan and U.S.A., however, were infuriated. “You only prepared Italian foods,” they complained. “What about us?” Since I don’t want to repeat the same mistake, can you help me decide what to cook? Should I go Japanese this time? Or American?
—Ester Rez
Dear Ester Rez,
I advised that neither should you prepare an all-Japanese menu nor an all-American menu. If you do, you will surely find yourself in the same quagmire as before. My advice is that you should try, as people do to clothes, to mix and match. You can, for instance, prepare a hamburger filled with sushi and topped with mozzarella cheese. For the beverage, I heard the wasabe Coke-cappuccino float is enjoying the patronage of many people—most notably the top brass from the United Nations whose overarching concern is to promote…unity in diversity. I assure you that if you prepare the food this way, no one among your friends can complain anymore that you have a bias for one or the other.
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