What Did You Eat for Dinner Last Night?

Gordon Davidson, artistic director of the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles

“I had dinner at the home of the British consul general, Paul Dimond. It was very well-presented and very good. We had smoked salmon terrine with a lemon horseradish vinaigrette--it was a secret recipe of the chef--and beef tenderloin with cranberry-mushroom sauce, new potatoes, some fresh garden vegetables and the dessert was a fresh fruit sabayon. There were two very good wines, a Cabernet and Chardonnay.

“What was nice about it was that rather than one long table, there were several tables of four, and the men moved around after the main course.”