Your holiday soirées don’t have to include the boozy trappings of the season, and if you’d like to ring in the new year as a teetotaler, Maria Neuman has some advice.
Your holiday soirées don’t have to include the boozy trappings of the season, and if you’d like to ring in the new year as a teetotaler, Maria Neuman has some advice. It was a New Year’s Eve, sometime during the 2010s, in a tony corner of West London. One of those chilly eves where there is a human log jam in the foyer of men and women shimmying out of puffer coats, hats, gloves, and scarves, to reveal the sartorial benchmarks of NYE – sequins for her, and bow-tie for him.
Everyone looked fabulous. As the affable host took my jacket, he casually dropped, “Can I get you something to drink, vodka tonic? Glass of champagne?” “Oh I don’t drink, sparkling water is fine,” I said casually. “Oh you don’t drink? Well, in that case how about a glass of wine?” “Ehrm, I don’t drink alcohol, so sparkling water is great if you have any,” (insert over-compensating smile from me, baffled stare from him
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