Underground Dining Miami-Style, Join The Local Food Web

• Bring on the virally dressed marketing schemes, under or on top of the ground, so long as somebody knows the time and place. Guinea pigs for dinner that night? Cuyo cool dude, Alex Guinea, might be the guest of honor. I find the concept of dinner happenings so secret that no one knows about them fun. It is to be hoped that somebody with $75.00 bucks in their Tux with this crazy economy will find Guinea pig toothsome. Whatever they are serving that night let's hope someone finds out about it. Let the dinners begin. Burton Dale

• It's wonderful Jacob that you are covering this MAHVELOUS DAHLING restaurant, Talula. Talula Bankhead was someone I knew back in the late forties, and did you know that my friend, Ruth Saito Rhineheart, who owned the exclusive Jazz Club, Jazz Ltd., in Chicago once barred Bankhead from the club. Talula tried to enter wearing slacks. Talula did not get past the velvet rope. She wanted to hear Sidney Bechet, her lover, who had the band there. Poor Sidney, he died on his birthday which is May 14th. He and I used to celebrate our mutual birthdays together. It pleases me to see that Andrea Curto-Randazzo is throwing an underground dinner party. $75.00 is certainly a bargain when you do not have to listen to the prattle of the little people who are always bigger in their own mind than the educated opinion of the rest of the world. Money does not always bring breeding, unless it has a generation or two to rub off the rough spots! My father, Bud Jacobson, the well known Dixieland clarinet player, came from show people, who always have good breeding if not always a lot of dough. He married into society when he married my mother, Catherine Regina Mueller. Though her family cut off her inheritance, they could not take away her manners. She was the first person, according to Downbeat Magazine, who decided to wear black nailpolish "right out of the groove." She had to make the nailpolish herself. My best to Andrea and her husband, Frank, with this newest concept of fine eating in South Florida. Bon Appetit!

• Please note - price and format have not yet been fixed for the first dinner, and space is limited. We will in future be doing events both in restaurants and alternative spaces - if anyone has a basement to offer, we'll happily go truly underground.

• I think that's the purpose.

• This is cool, but I would LOVE to know where the actual underground dining societies are Miami. I've searched everywhere and asked around everywhere. No luck. :(

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