Palm Beach Entertaining Quotes

“Following the food from market to the kitchen made a huge difference. to this day, this is how I cook.”
― Annie Falk

“Inspired by its views of both the Atlantic and Lake Worth, Marjorie planned to call her home Mar-A-Lago from the Latin, meaning 'from sea to lake.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

“When acquaintances expressed their fascination with his new Palm Beach home {Mar-A-Lago} , the stockbroker often shrugged cynically. 'You know Marjorie said she as going to build a little cottage by the sea. Look what we got!”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart , American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

“Above all, wealth was no longer to be flaunted. While an ostentatious displays of money might have been de rigueur in the Golden Twenties, it was decidedly out of fashion in the desperate days of the Destitute Thirties.

The splashy parties the socialite once gave and attended in the twenties in New York and Palm Beach now dwindled to a trickle and were replaced with charity teas, and fund raisers.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post