Not being very social, I do not regularly read the Seen column. This is nothing against our social scene reporters Marylynn Uricchio and Patricia Sheridan, whom I know and like and think do a great job. I am sure they return the favor by not reading some of the more room-emptying editorials I write on subjects that aren't interesting to them.
But I have several friends who attended the Mattress Factory's 2009 Urban Garden Party, which they said was quite an event, and I found myself reading the Seen column account of it. I was stopped short when told that the caterers had "served lamb burgers from trays placed on a naked woman."
My own view is that food and naked people should be kept separate. You never know where naked people have been. While I grant that at this party the trays added a hygienic separation between burgers and bod, I am just not sure that Julia Child would have approved. I am also uncomfortable with women being used as furniture. For that matter, I am not in favor of men being used as furniture - should anyone get any bright ideas.
Americans have never liked lamb very much. This is a shame, because in Australia where I grew up people can't walk through a field without grabbing a sheep and putting slices of bread on each side of it. Nude women play no part in this, which is just as well - you can find some nasty burs in sheep paddocks.
Even so, promoting lamb through unorthodox employment of nude women is unlikely to promote the product. Distracted men won't remember what they eat.
Posted
Jun 16 2009, 07:12 PM
by
Reg Henry