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Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

terri — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:24:19 -0000

-menu would be the summer veggies from my grandmother's garden
-guests would be my family, especially my children and the Dali Lama.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

MarieLeona — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:43:28 -0000

Well let me see... Red wine, beautiful, flavorful food and surrounded by my family and friends... Hope this is how it shall end!!

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Whoever — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:46:49 -0000

Who am I comfortable enough with to let me be me at my age, and answer in full truth.

My daughter, my friend and my soulmate. And these are the same person and three separate people at the same time.

And that tells what I really should be allowing and disallowing in my life, especially at this stage.

Thank you for this.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

alligator_kate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:33 -0000

Oh yes, and nobody but me would know it was my last meal.... that would be crucial. Good idea Andrea Devis.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

alligator_kate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:19:59 -0000

amen to that!

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

alligator_kate — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:18:14 -0000

Everything (almost) from the garden and greenmarket, depending on the season... so I hope it will be harvest time! Caprese salad-- Buffalo mozzarella, vine ripened tomatoes, and chopped fresh basil. Peach cobbler made from our very own Lower East Side peach tree, fresh corn on the cob, berries, raw oysters (even though there is no r in August) Chesapeake bay crab. Pan fried rainbow trout from a fresh mountain stream. Amazing wild green salad with mulberry vinaigrette. Great wine. Il Labratorio gellato. It would take place in the Children's Magical Garden, with Alfredo's salsa band playing, the whole neighborhood invited, and all of my living beloveds, human and animal.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

liz strand — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:33:56 -0000

First I thought my husband, then decided I would have lunch with God, or a close associate of God's. Who better to explain my miscues, mistakes, screw ups, and of course, all my good deeds. I would hope I could make a pretty good case for getting into heaven. I know it would not be sad, and all the people I care about would know it was a happy day for me.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Mary — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:11:53 -0000

My mum wants Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Island!? Try getting that one out of your head.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

laurie_matthews — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:31:05 -0000

It would have to be a combination of a dinner I had in Montana last weekend with my girlfriends from college, a dinner I had in LA with "the boys" from Boston, a lobster dinner on the beaches of Massachusetts I've had with my east coast posse, and a few choice dishes from favorite restaurants in Portland, Oregon that I've shared with my friends from grad school. But to give this familiar meal a twist it would have to take place somewhere I've always wanted to go, but have not yet visited - on a large patio in a beautiful home on the coast of Mallorca. And who with... that's easy... all the people I've shared those wonderful meals with before.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Jane — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:05:43 -0000

Anything, shared with my husband and daughter.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Jennifer Sage — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:29 -0000

I tend to believe that our last meal is rarely planned. The circumstances tha tmean you know you are going to die in modern society are horrifying to me. Capital punishment etc.

I am remembering a good saying that I read somewhere. Live everyday as if it is your last because one day you will be right. To embrace full hearted, wise and loving living. Every meal could be our last means I can slow down and savour each moment for what it is. A quiet simple lunch alone, a riotous noisy dinner party with lots of friends who helped to prepare the meal, a latte with a teary friend whose beloved cat has just died.

I work as a palliative care nurse and what I have learnt is to be fully in the now whatever that now is. Our last meal is the one we just ate.

Jennifer Sage

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Scott — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:06:11 -0000

I would be the chef for my last meal because I love to create in the kitchen. Along with the delight of preparing good food I'd like a kitchen stocked with the best pots, pans and knives, cutting boards and gas range with a hood. The kitchen would be an open model in a hot summer setting and the food bought from a local market - fresh, vibrant... beautiful. There would be several taps of cold beer. I'd BBQ a nice leg of lamb with reduced red wine gravy, roast lemon, rosemary potatoes, simple summer green salad with fresh strawberries, raspberries, apples, pine nuts, peppers and tomatoes. I'd like saute'd portabello mushrooms and freshly baked bread and corn on the cob with butter, salt and pepper. Dessert would be chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream from Casa Gelato. I'd have my whole tribe over and make it as light and as intimate as it could be. Lots of folks playing music, spinning tales, performing skits, eating drinking. I'd want some one on one time with my wife and son, and the atmosphere generally would be connected, intentional and whole. Another fun idea for the 'ol last supper would be on a canoe trip (with said tribe) with steaks and re-hydrated chili, dried fruit and single malt. Swimming in the river and playing in a falls. Barking at the moon. Bacchanal, a testamant to the raucus tumble that life is...

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Lisa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:50:09 -0000

Changes every few months. Currently, Lindt Intense Pear. Here's a site that sells it: http://www.germandeli.com/liinpedach10.html

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Danielle LaPorte — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:47:20 -0000

Power to the white trash meal! You forgot to throw in some Twinkies...or maybe those coconut ball puff things with a shelf life of, I think, 78 years.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Danielle LaPorte — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:43:13 -0000

LOVE the idea of not telling anyone it's your last meal. More magic. Less tears.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Carrie McCarthy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:56 -0000

What's you favorite dark chocolate bar?

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

colette — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:17 -0000

My pleasure! ;D You are gonna love the SS!!! It took me a couple of months to find two words that when put together described my essence and way of being. But, one day the words Romantic Natural just came to me. It was one of those ooooh, aaahhh, aha! things as I looked around my home and saw that those two words were exactly it!

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

MelissaM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:23:15 -0000

My last meal would be a big potluck picnic. A festival of friends and family where everyone brings their favourite homemade dish. Live music a must.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Kristin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:44:47 -0000

What a lovely thing to say! This is just such a wonderful website...love the varying views on life and how to live it. Thanks C&D for creating this. I received my SS book today (!!) after waiting AGES so can't wait to dive into it. Big love to you, Colette. :)

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Luciaf — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:08:21 -0000

these daily questions have become such a blessing to me, like a prayer of thankfulness. Thank you Carrie and Danielle for inventing such a thing. I am rather hooked.
My last meal I would like to make myself. I would do a traditional Italian dinner with twelve courses, all recipes my Dad taught me, plus a few appies and salads that are more Westcoast, my inventions. I would finish with a dessert my Mom taught me- simple but so reminiscent of childhood: lazy daisy cake. I would feed all the people that were at my wedding, adding my daughter (whom I hope is an old lady by then) and any new dear friends. We're up to around 500 people now, but hey, I'm Italian, it's the way we do things. And I always like to have a good audience.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Karryn Ransom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:02:12 -0000

It would probably be full of sugar.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Dolly Hopkins — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:49:01 -0000

I would have good wine, fine cheeses, delicious organic greens and delicate morsels of organic lamb. I would surround myself with my dear friends (goddess group), my dear husband, and a few other choise people in my life and laugh and enjoy every living last second with these people.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Connie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:48:31 -0000

Hots dogs, beans and potato salad outside with my grandson, Izak. He loves hot dogs and his "granny" Connie. We'd probably laugh a lot.

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Katie Kay — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:12 -0000

Jamie ~ I couldn't have said it better, you are spot on. Thank you

Re: What would be your last meal and with whom would you share it?

Lisa — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:34:44 -0000

Me again, and a correction, if its my last meal, I'm having the whole darned chocolate bar!