Last month my husband and I hosted a party that we donated for the Arkansas Reperatory Theatre’s Saints and Sinners Ball earlier this year. It was a white themed night complete with decor, attire, wine and the cusine (or most of it anyway).
My husband, Carter, (right) greeted our guests with white sangria.
I love an excuse to get out all my tableware and linens. This white party was a perfect reason and I threw in a little green to complement my dining room just for fun.
The first course was mixed greens with Granny Smith Apples, gorgonzola and a white vinegarette. It was paired with Ferarri Carano’s Fume Blanc, one of my very favorite whites.
The Fabulous Evette, owner of 1620, catered the meal which included seabass on a white corn succotash, garnished with rosemary and yes, red sauce. Ok so we cheated a bit but the flavor was divine! My husband and I had the best seats in the house at the kitchen table watching Evette and her crew bring this gorgeous meal to life.
Dessert was a warm blueberry cake with cream cream icing. It was so good, I couldn’t get a photo before our guests took a bite.
Beautiful setting!
Tobi,
It is beautiful! I am working on a fundraiser right now and you have offered up a beautiful option to study for our auctions. Keep up the wonderful work! Not only are you talented, you are involved in your community, that is what really counts.
Wow! What a dinner! Thanks for sharing it.
Nice job on being a charitable philanthropist.
But I can’t help but be disturbed by the obvious racial/ethnicity division at your event. Where was this again? Looks like an image straight out of the 60′s. Very alarming.
Hi Colleen. Thanks for the comment and the compliment on my philanthropy. Yes, I guess these photos could be a bit misleading but I am far from discriminatory and that never entered my mind. Thank you for pointing that out to be so that I can be sensitive to all my readers!
The event was a dinner party for 8 people that I donated to the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, where I serve on the board of directors, to be sold to the highest bidder. One of our friends who is also on the board with me and his wife shown in some of the photos purchased the party and invited six of their friends. Then I hired my great friend Evette, owner of restaurant 1620 here in Little Rock to cater the party. My husband and I had the best seat in the house, sitting at the kitchen table watching Evett and her team create this gorgeous meal and serving it to the party guests.
Because the party was in August, the hottest month in Arkansas, we had a white theme where the guests wore white clothing, we had white decor and we served the guest white food.
I am donating the party again next year but thanks to your great comment I might mix things up a bit next year and make it a red party or some other fabulous color. Thanks again for reading and for your comment.
Tobi I applaud your diplomatic style. You handled that comment brilliantly. Being a “southern boy” myself, and having lived in Los Angeles for 27 years, it always infuriates me at the ignorance about the “south” that still remains in this world. Unfortunately ethnic prejudice does still exist in this world, but the south does not hold it exclusively. In fact I dare say that the south has advanced more than some other areas in that regard. “right out of the 60′s”… I doubt very seriously that successful business woman (Evette) would be the co-owner with another African American of what appears to be one of Little Rock’s finest restaurants in the 60′s.
Publish or not, I just had to speak up for my beloved South!
Ed