Dinee

In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.

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1994 The paella didn’t turn out very well, but fortunately my dinees were quite understanding.

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But since power itself is fleeting, the whole game of the right table at the right restaurant is ongoing. As the restaurants themselves rise and fall, so do the fortunes of the powerful who patronize them. The names of both diners and dinees is constantly in flux; the game remains the same. As Lewis Stone intoned in the 1932 classic Grand Hotel, a cautionary tale of the vicissitudes of fame and power, “People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”

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If I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?

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