Guests I'd invite to my fantasy lunch:
I'm a style-icon junkie so I would invite the following people:
• Miles Redd, a New York city decorator with more style in his baby finger than most people have in their whole body. He'd assist with the table scape and push the colour and objets d'art boundaries to make the table uber fab.
• Bunny Williams, a decorator who worked in Jackie O's heyday, would set the stage for a stylish eating experience.
• Carolina Herrera would spray me with her delicious scent and dress me in one of her perfect creations. She'd infuse the lunch with grace and style.
• Then there'd be Jackie Onassis, who would whisper her White House stories and spill the beans about all the kings, queens and leaders she met there.
• And finally, Nigella Lawson, our guest chef who'd lick her lips when she tasted my food and oooh and aah about the delicious flavour combinations.
Other fabulous guests would include:
Stephen Falcke, Julia Twigg, Boyd Ferguson and Stephen Rich, who would keep us in stitches with his latest client peccadilloes. I would also have my very clever husband, Christopher, who is the most stylish of them all, as well as my two little worker bee children to slave with me in the kitchen! Timothy Moloi, our very own South African opera singer, would be there serenading us while we ate.What we'd talk about:
Style and food and how food and decor and clothing style all have their season and trends and how these trends impact on us and push us to our design limits - even if designing a dish.
What I'd serve:
Being a fan of al fresco eating, we would sit under the trees at Beechwood, our home in Hyde Park, Joburg. I would have a buffet set out on one of my French side tables.
On the menu would be iced green gazpacho soup to start, with sourdough bread and ice-cold salted butter.
The buffet would include Moroccan chicken on a bed of jewelled couscous with a beetroot purée; little gem lettuce salad with tonnato sauce; caprese salad on a bed of avocado purée; soy glazed fillet rolled in fresh herbs, and roasted pumpkin slices.
We'd finish off with a tropical Eton Mess.
Who would do the washing up?
My little worker bees - the baby Greigs.
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In association with Gardens of the Golden City, the fabulous Beechwood garden, homestead of the Greigs, will be on show from 10am to 6pm today.
Address: 25 Christopherson Road, Hyde Park, Johannesburg
Cost: R50 entry. All proceeds go to charity. A tea garden and light meals will be available...