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CharlesWT · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1743 Location: Plano, Texas

The rules are simple: Your friend, or a friend of a friend, or a friend of a friend of a friend heard about this thing, and all you have to do is bring $50 and a bottle of wine to this apartment, the exact location of which will be revealed to you sometime after your RSVP.

Wink is a roving supper with no physical address. There is no website, only its creator, whom we’ll call “chef X,’’ an anonymous e-mail, and an ever-shifting array of cobbled-together place settings in an ever-shifting array of homes around Boston. X has clandestinely descended upon these kitchens some 60 times over the past three years.
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Wink, wink, nudge, nudge

Larry_Home · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject:

CharlesWT · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1743 Location: Plano, Texas

Larry_Home · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:57 pm Post subject:

Sorry, Charles, it was just so transparently ridiculous. "The food" is available in any city of reasonable size anywhere, without all the James Bondian foreplay.
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CharlesWT · Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 1743 Location: Plano, Texas

Oh, I agree with you. I figure there's a bit more at play here than the food.

Larry_Home · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject:

If nothing else, one of the oldies and goodies of the sales world: exclusivity.

Notice how often the writer refers to the #1 topic: "So, how do you know about this place?" Rolling Eyes

What a thrilling conversation! One step above, "Come here often?"

Still, every little bite out of extreme egalitarianism is welcome.
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