04 · Gatherings

People, food, and long tables

This is not entertaining advice. It is a visual journal of the way we gather at home: dinner parties, casual garden lunches, cocktail hour, holiday tables, and the standing Sunday dinner that started it all.

Friends reaching across a candlelit table to toast with wine glasses
Two forks interlocked against a deep red backdrop

A late summer menu

  • Salsas with our chili peppersfrom the beds
  • Mayak eggsa staple; our peppers go in the sauce
  • Grilled chicken with chili vinegarour house sauce
  • Meyer lemon and olive oil cakethe tree came with the house
  • Cold red wine, no ceremonycocktail hour first

Flowers cut from the beds an hour before, music on early, and the chili oil already on the table. Nothing matched, and nothing needed to.

The best rooms in this house are the ones with chairs pulled up to them.