Slurping my vichyssoise with Capote’s women

The Very Extra Book Club starts the year with generous helpings of the scandals that broke this author and his New York swans apart

What on God’s green earth is Anna Karenina or War and Peace or Madame Bovary, if not gossip? —Truman Capote.

PARTY LIKE THE ’60S Clockwise from top: The author and Rajo Laurel as Truman Capote flanking Jae de Veyra Pickrell as Slim Keith; Pauline Suaco Juan as Babe Paley, Marielle Santos Po as C.Z. Guest; and Stephanie Zubiri and Rocio Olbes Ressano as Gloria Guinness Capote’s swans, particularly Babe Paley and Gloria Guinness, would have drooled over the baby vegetables alone. After all, in “La Côte Basque,” an extract from, Capote gushed about the most beautiful vegetables in the homes of his very rich friends, but he mentioned only the juveniles—“The greenest, infinitesimal carrots, corn so baby-kerneled and tender it seems almost unborn, lima beans tinier than mice eyes, and the young asparagus!”dinner extra, extra.

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