Progressive Dinner Party

Christien was out for coffee with a client the other day and asked her what her plans were for Halloween. She told him that she was going to be going to a Progressive Dinner Party. Apparently the gist is this. You get a total of about 3 or 4 hosts, and have each of those hosts cook a dish for the night. Could be an appy at one place, soup and salad at another, main course at another, or just a large dish at each house. The deal is you drive from house to house having dinner or portions of dinner and having someone different host. It sounds like the main idea is to have more of a mingling party. You know when you go to parties, depending on whose place you are at, there are certain people who will park by the fireplace all night, and others who will stay in the kitchen, etc instead of mingling around. The idea of the Progressive Dinner Party is to get people mingling in a different way throughout the night. Kind of a cool concept. A little un-environmentally friendly. And I think that it may work best either in a smaller city or in a city where your hosts live in either the same or a close neighbourhood. Calgary might make it a bit difficult as people are so spread out in this city. Otherwise, I think that it's a cool little idea.