Party Recipe: Earthquake Memorial

As the sun set, we lit a couple candles while Rob kicked off the night with a quick introduction to triage (pictured above). The guests then categorize 15 photos – including zombies and Batman – into green, yellow, red and black.

You may remember that this is an electricity-free party. So once it was totally dark, we lit all the candles and sat down to a meal of cioppino with hot sourdough bread with garlic-truffle butter. Margaret followed that with strawberry shortcake with fresh whipped cream and homemade pound cake.

We lingered at the table for a long time with glasses of port and lively conversation about serial killers, the meaning of “steep” vs. “seep” and You’ve Got Mail (among many topics). It was 10:30 before anyone even mentioned going home and took a good half hour more to actually shut down – definitely the sign of an excellent night.