Dining Out

Kaye and I used to go out to dinner sometimes. We were both fussy about our food and she was a very good gourmet cook, so we were particular about where we went. The food had to be good. Good eating starts with careful selection of the right ingredients, and it went on to an understanding of what the cook is trying to create. Any fool can just sling hash and hope into a frypan in equal amounts. So over the years, we've come to have a short list of favourite places to eat. Not that there was much chance of eating out over the last couple of years, her failing condition saw to that.

But now that she's gone, I still would like to eat out sometimes and my standards have not gone, I still want good food. But I am not comfortable with the idea of dining alone, a special meal demands an equally special companion, company is the best sauce of all. It would be even harder to dine alone where we used to enjoy going together. I need a companion, someone who will appreciate good food and wine, can talk with a modicum of intelligence and who knows when to simply sit and be there in silence. Kaye would approve I know, we talked a few times about how life would go on for the other after one had gone.

I don't want to take two people, that destroys the intimacy of the dinner. My guest would have to be a woman to create the level of intimacy that I am looking for and all the women my own age that I would consider taking are married. Taking a husband along would spoil the closeness. Perhaps Micah would oblige, she is a lovely girl and I am fond of her. I would have to check with her parents though, we would be laying ourselves wide open to gossip and I do not want to cause her any discomfort. But there are those in the church who have far more time on their hands than is good for them and they would delight in having something to whisper about. I'll tell Tony and Margaret about it and get the OK from them first, then I'll ask Micah. I would enjoy her company I think. I could take her to Fidelles OK. She would know how to behave in such a place and in some ways Micah is a special girl and Fidelles was a very special place for Kaye and I.