The Malayan Ambassador.

In the Vaughn Meader good natured parody of the Kennedy family dating back to the early 60's, the Malayan Ambassador arrives at the security gate of the white house for dinner.

He is announced in very proper english. The gate keeper allows him to pass. He goes to the next gate keeper (there was 4 if I remember), finally the aide asks Jackie, who says: “Tell him it is TOMORROW night.”

We did that last night.

Friends of 40 year duration who live in Portland had invited us over for dinner. I made a big loaf of black olive bread and we arrived right on time.

But like the Malayan Ambassador we had the wrong day. We all laughed, cut the bread and had a piece of still warm bread, visited a bit and came home.


Were it anyone but old dear friends it might have been embarassing, but it was just funny. We will go back Thursday and I will bering a pan of corn bread.

The black olive bread takes 3 hours to make. It goes through three raisings and as many stretches of kneeding. I can whip out a batch of corn bread in less than an hour start to finish.

So she will ajust her soup recipe to make it perfet for my cornbread. It will be good.