Comments on: Lara Shriftman’s Eight Tips to a Successful Party http://www.partyplanningandmore.com/fun/laura-shriftmans-eight-tips-to-a-successful-party.html Get great party tips, share your party tips, and get some great advice on party favors. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Cindy http://www.partyplanningandmore.com/fun/laura-shriftmans-eight-tips-to-a-successful-party.html/comment-page-1#comment-13 Cindy Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:46:08 +0000 http://www.partyplanningandmore.com/?p=39#comment-13 Camille, I want to start by saying thank you for taking the time to post a comment. I love your suggestions for the food that you typically find at a party in Jamaica. I would like to have some of the recipes for the food that you have mentioned. I hope that you did still find some of the tips to be helpful and I am sure that everyone will find your comments to be helpful when planning their parties in the future. Cindy Camille,

I want to start by saying thank you for taking the time to post a comment. I love your suggestions for the food that you typically find at a party in Jamaica. I would like to have some of the recipes for the food that you have mentioned. I hope that you did still find some of the tips to be helpful and I am sure that everyone will find your comments to be helpful when planning their parties in the future.

Cindy

]]> By: Camille http://www.partyplanningandmore.com/fun/laura-shriftmans-eight-tips-to-a-successful-party.html/comment-page-1#comment-11 Camille Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:23:03 +0000 http://www.partyplanningandmore.com/?p=39#comment-11 I was excited to begin to read tips to a Successful Party, but I was disappointed at the suggestions for food and favors. Where I live (in Jamaica) a party includes a tasty soup (usually hot in temperature and flavored with Scotch Bonnet pepper) like fish tea or chicken soup, and the food served is a plateful of meat, chicken, rice and salad. Sure, little snackies such as Laura mentioned are available, but a meal is also expected. If a treat is given as guests are leaving, it's something substantial like sweet potato pudding or coconut cake, if not a piece of the celebration cake-- yes a sweet, but not candy. Candy is for "pickney" (children). Usually the cake for an adult party, wedding or anniversary is a rich, dark fruit cake heavy with raisins, currants and rum. Looking back at the tips again, I must say the only ones I felt to comment on were 5 and 8. 75% isn't a bad grade. Thanks for the effort. I was excited to begin to read tips to a Successful Party, but I was disappointed at the suggestions for food and favors.

Where I live (in Jamaica) a party includes a tasty soup (usually hot in temperature and flavored with Scotch Bonnet pepper) like fish tea or chicken soup, and the food served is a plateful of meat, chicken, rice and salad. Sure, little snackies such as Laura mentioned are available, but a meal is also expected.

If a treat is given as guests are leaving, it’s something substantial like sweet potato pudding or coconut cake, if not a piece of the celebration cake– yes a sweet, but not candy. Candy is for “pickney” (children). Usually the cake for an adult party, wedding or anniversary is a rich, dark fruit cake heavy with raisins, currants and rum.

Looking back at the tips again, I must say the only ones I felt to comment on were 5 and 8. 75% isn’t a bad grade. Thanks for the effort.

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