Legendary Harper's Bazaar editor Diana Vreeland is famous for her "Why Don't You…" suggestions — surprising, oftentimes outlandish but ever the epitome of haute chic. Not limited to fashion, her sage ideas ranged from child rearing ("wash your children's hair in dead Champagne to keep its gold, as they do in France?), to gift-giving ("give someone an enormous white handkerchief-linen table cloth, and in different handwriting and in different colors (black, acid green, pink, scarlet and pale blue) have embroidered all the bon mots you can possibly think of?"), and entertaining ("serve individual Pfirsch Bowle which is a peeled peach in a chilled glass with ice-cold Moselle or Rhine wine poured in? Marvelous at tea time.").
Certainly a visionary this dedicated to detail ran her household with the same ineffable élan, issuing imaginative dictates to Cook…
Fortuitously my proximity to the offices of Harper's Bazaar has turned up some clues to what these almost-lost-to-time memos might have included:
WHY DON'T YOU… create a Neptune's lair tablescape with branches of white coral, ropes of pears, candles shaped as sea urchins? Set each place with tiny shells for salt and pepper.
WHY DON'T YOU… mixed cubed roasted beets into jasmine rice for a brilliant fuchsia color? Pink is the navy blue of India!
WHY DON'T YOU… make a salad of frilly celery batons dressed with anchovies, lemon and capers?
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WHY DON'T YOU…go to Paris to collect some cunning serving pieces to dress up your crudités and olives?
WHY DON'T YOU…arrange perfect circles of cooked carrot in a polka-dot pattern around the rims of your finest white china?
WHY DON'T YOU…serve side-by-side pots de creme, white chocolate sprinkled with black Hawaiian sea salt and pink Himalayan salt finishing its dark chocolate counterpart?
WHY DON'T YOU… serve hot cubes of fresh Foie Gras sauteed exactly 55 seconds on tiny toasts at your next party?
WHY DON'T YOU…go on eBay and buy every plate, bowl and platter in your favorite pattern until you have enough to set a banquet table worthy of a Tsar?
As Mrs. Vreeland proclaimed, "GIVE 'EM WHAT THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WANTED!" Your guests deserve no less. 