A SUPPER NOVELTY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 5

A SUPPER NOVELTY

Guests “Cook Their Own” The cook-your-own buffet supper fad has been introduced to Hollywood by Helen Hayes, famous stage and screen star. Servantless Sunday and Thursday nights do not mean guestless evenings at her home, for she has worked out a formula of easily-prepared chaflng-dish recipes that are prepared by her guests. . . During the filming of her latest picture, Miss Hayes entertained with a guest-cooked supper and thereby started a series of such functions in the film colony. Preparations for Miss Hayes’s party comprised two chafing-dishes at each end of an oil-cloth-covered dining-room table. All the ingredients for the food were assembled in small dishes. Cooking implements, such as large knives, forks and spoons, salt and paprika also were present. Coffee was served at the middle of the table and next to the steaming java was a large bowl of salad. Typewritten recipes were placed beside the chafing-dishes and the guests were supplied with aprons and assigned to their duties at either end of the table. According to Miss Hayes, the men enjoy these personally-cooked suppers even more than the women.