How To Throw a Peachy Party: Brasserie Cognac March 29, 2011

You need one fabulous Director of Business Development, namely Caroline Alexa McBride!

THANK YOU CAROLINE!

You need two fabulous restaurant owners, namely Fabio Granato and Vittorio Assaf:

THANK YOU FABIO AND VITTORIO!

In the meantime, you review around 50 or so restaurants that are great that we tell you about, and even more than that to determine the top ones and we don't tell you a word about the lousy ones, but only a tiny handful are as excellent as the Serafina group: Serafina, Manana, Geisha and Brasserie Coganc. 

This takes about two years to figure out.

You need an excellent Chef like Florian Hugo:

THANK YOU FLORIAN!

You surround yourself with Movers and Shakers with fabulous ideas, namely Jenna Esposito, and take them to parties with you:

THANK YOU JENNA!

The Mover and Shaker Celebration was Jenna's idea when she was talking to Caroline.

You need a fabulous wine sponsor like Les Deux Rives of Pasternak!  Peachy Deegan loves it:

THANK YOU SUSAN ANNE AND PASTERNAK!

You need a great friend that owns the best vodka company in the world, Charles Ferri:

THANK YOU CHARLES!

Star Vodka is the only vodka that Peachy drinks.

You need two excellent people like your cousin to man the door and be the friendly clipboard people:

THANK YOU ANDY AND JULIE!

You need an excellent photographer like Maria Sabate:

THANK YOU MARIA!

 You need a restaurant like Swifty's to start the trend of naming a drink after you so you can all properly celebrate when you have a party:

THANK YOU SWIFTY'S!

That is Pat, Blaine, Charles and Peachy.  Robert and Stephen were working.

You know Blaine is the only verb so far in the history of our vocabulary (See Extracurricular Vocabulary we've created: http://www.whomyouknow.com/search/label/Extracurricular%20Vocabulary%20Specific%20to%20Whom%20You%20Know) so you absolutely need to include someone as fun as her at your soiree.  Obviously guest list is CLUTCH and that is where our Movers and Shakers come in!

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New Column: How To Throw a Peachy Party

We get a lot of unsolicited advice from the outside world, good and bad, about how to throw a party.  We don't promote other soiree givers generally, because Peachy Deegan herself is not too bad at shindigs....in this column Peachy herself is going to tell you the best ways to have amazing soirees!  She did chair her 5 year and her 10 year Miss Porter's reunions, and was on Boston College reunion committees also.  Yes, she mainly hangs out with people she went to school with to this day!  But we love meeting new people too and we have some fabulous Movers and Shakers to showcase shortly.

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