Word: potluckers
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...Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Forget the six-course meal and the bevy of waiters swooping around your table. To really savor a beautiful fall evening in Paris, ditch the stuffy, gilded dining room and try a champagne picnic along the Seine or a melon-and-charcuterie potluck on the Champ de Mars. Paris is full of prime public spaces with great views that make superb - and free - locations for private parties. For breathtaking backdrops, the banks of the Seine rank high. Parisienne Amélie Nusse and 14 of her twenty-something friends threw a bachelorette...
...such attention from the G.O.P. If you are a swing-state Republican, lean that way or happen to share an interest like NASCAR or the N.R.A., someone is probably going to knock on your door between now and Election Day. You may already know G.O.P. officials from the church potluck or Little League, but if you don't, they hope to lavish attention...
...grocery chains or corporate middlemen that purchase their crops. But the Skinners are among a growing breed of producers dedicated to "community-supported agriculture." These CSAs, also known as subscription farms, sell shares of their harvest in advance directly to the consumer. They involve shareholder families through regular newsletters, potluck parties and even farm work. The lure is not just fresher, cheaper veggies but also a sense of belonging. Thus the Skinners' dismay didn't last. A score of shareholders showed up to weed. "When you help the people who grow your food, it is spiritually as well as physically...
Each bunco party is as different as the women playing it. Most parties rotate hosting duties and all include food, but the fare can run from a lavish meal complete with china and linen to a potluck buffet. Some adopt a theme for each month's meeting, like a haunted house with all the players wearing Halloween costumes...
...meet those needs, the gay community, once primarily the domain of single adults, has begun to respond with an array of support services, including potluck dinners, websites and conferences, sponsored by groups like Family Pride Coalition, which focuses on the needs of gay parents, and Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere (COLAGE), which is dedicated exclusively to helping the kids. Even gay and lesbian community centers have begun adding family activities: in the past two years, centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco have launched family programs with services like Parent and Me, for parents with newborns...