where i wasn't

Last night,

John was here:

"On November 1^st 2011, The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York will host a Royal Gala Award Dinner. We are very proud and honored to have Swedish royal presence with H.R.H. Princess Madeleine and H.R.H. Prince Daniel attending as our Guests of Honor. The exclusive Dinner will be held for 250 guests, including high profile guests such as Martha Stewart who will be the Key Note speaker, Star Chef & Food Activist Marcus Samuelsson, Tim Zagat, Andre Heinz, Director of Sustainability at PepsiCo Dan Bena, rising Star Chef Magnus Nilsson (featured in the Sept issue of Bon Appetite Magazine) and Sweden’s Minister for Rural Affairs. The exclusive dinner will be held at the famous IAC HQ in Chelsea and is made to order for this special event. More specifically, our caterer is growing and producing everything on his local farm to honor the sustainable theme of our Green Summit that will take place the following day. Our Fourth Annual Green Summit this year will focus on sustainability in the food chain, with the title ‘From Farm to Fork’. The Green Summit with over 30 high profile speakers participating will be held at Citibank’s Headquarters onPark Avenue."           (from our invitation - wolffer provided the wine pairings for this event)

He said it was wonderful.

He loved the people at "our" table.

He sat with JP Morgan's great-great grandson.

I just couldn't get away

to be there...

Instead,

I was at Las Palmas

with L & C.

I couldn't have had better people at "my" table,

but I will admit...

I was a little jealous.