Apero'lympics: a party/game in Paris
It's a perfect 10 from Sophie Guiton!
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It’s still party time over here at xoxo Dorie headquarters. Last week it was a tea-sandwich party — if you didn’t get a chance to see the glorious spread that Mary Dodd arranged in her garden, jump over now: It will make your heart sing. This week, it’s an Olympic-watch party. It’s an apéro dinatoire and it’s one of my favorite ways to share a meal with friends.
An apéro dinatoire by any other name is … girl dinner, dips for dinner, an indoor picnic (it’s what I always call it), “heavy” hors d’oeuvres or, to use a word I don’t hear much anymore, a buffet. Except it’s French. It’s a mash-up of aperitif and dinner, a way to have friends over without fussing
Not that the New York Times didn’t fuss and make a spectacular spread for my story, How to Eat Like You’re in Paris for the 2024 Olympics (gift link).
And not that my friend Sophie Guiton didn’t go for the gold — and nab it — with her Olympics party. I’ve got another edition coming to you in a couple of days — think of i…
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