{"id":18471,"date":"2016-07-10T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=18471"},"modified":"2016-07-10T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:36:15","slug":"happy-birthday-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/happy-birthday-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Boo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I find myself thinking about the difference between when women plan parties and when men plan parties. When women plan parties, there has to be a theme. Like everyone has to dress like a character in a James Bond movie, or wear all black, or dress like they are going to a Hawaiian luau. There are glow sticks. There are party hats, and God help you if you don’t put one on, no matter how much of a don’t-wear-hats person you are.<\/p>\n

Last night I went to a party planned by a man. There was Gus’s chicken. There was Aldo’s pizza. There was more beer than I had ever seen in my life.<\/p>\n

Men are the best party planners.<\/p>\n

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The occasion was our friend Boo’s 60th birthday. Boo is pictured above in her big purple sunglasses, with party planner and husband Gary standing next to her.<\/p>\n

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Lots of good people came out to South Main to celebrate Boo’s big day.<\/p>\n

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Memphis restaurant royalty, right here. Chef Michael Patrick of Rizzo’s and Tawanda and Cordell Pirtle\u00a0from Jack Pirtle’s Fried Chicken.<\/p>\n

Gary’s selection of pizza from Aldo’s illustrates why men are better party planners. No foo-foo toppings like pineapple or eggplant. Nope, he went with crowd-pleasers like a pizza topped with sausage, pepperoni, and Aldo’s grandma’s famous meatballs. There was the Memphis, a pizza topped with Central BBQ , BBQ sauce, and cole slaw. I don’t know if any vegetarians were invited to the party, but if they were, Gary made sure they were taken care of, with a white pizza with four cheeses including ricotta.<\/p>\n

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Normally at parties like this, I will stick to the pizzas with meat on them, so that I don’t take away food options from those who don’t eat meat. However, there didn’t seem to be any vegetarians there, and there was a lot of extra white pizza. So I had some! Man, that was good!<\/p>\n

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The piece de resistance<\/em> of the evening, however, was not pizza; it was a cake created by the superbly talented MK.<\/p>\n

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MK’s special talent is that she can bake a cake that looks like any object imaginable – but it’s all cake. Boo makes pottery and sells it at the Memphis Farmers Market on Saturdays. So MK made her a cake that looked like a pottery wheel. MK is one half of Two Girls and a Whip<\/a>, a new bakery that will be opening at Front and Huling. Give them a shout if you need a custom cake for a special occasion.<\/p>\n

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MK’s cake wasn’t just any cake: it was a tiramisu cake. I love tiramisu! So yummy.<\/p>\n

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Happy birthday Boo, and thank you so much for inviting me. It was a wonderful Saturday evening with friends that just couldn’t have been much better. Folks, if you weren’t there, you missed out on a good time!<\/p>\n

All right. I only have one news item at the moment, so I guess I will hold it until Monday. D-RANKS with B-RAD at the Blind Bear is my first stop at 11. I may venture back to South Main later in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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