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« My fridge this week | Main | Seven deadly sins » Tuesday, January 9, 2007The queen of happy hourFood page contributor Debra Samuels puts on a happy hour that goes on for hours and includes much grazing. Here is one example:
Most of this array comes from Sessa's Italian Specialties in Somerville's Davis Square. Deb calls this "heavy happy hour," which means come with your appetite. In stages, so you're surprised all evening, she brings out (top right) a bowl of tuna an Italian friend caught and canned(!); sweet-sour cipollini onions; tomato salad; caponata, the chunky eggplant dip. There's a green salad with a bottle of olive oil to dress your own greens; oranges tossed with fennel (bottom right); prosciutto; good salami; crusty bread; a handsome wedge of real Parmesan; white bean salad. Deb and her husband, Dick, have lived in Italy several times and spent three months last year in Sicily, where my husband and I visited them. I think Deb had already put on many fine happy hours; the little feasts she set out from that tiny kitchen were impressive. When Deb first proposed coming over last weekend for heavy happy hour, I asked if we should all go out to eat afterwards. "Eat afterwards?" she asked incredulously. No wonder! Posted by Sheryl Julian at 10:48 AM
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