Content consultant extraordinaire Kara Doherty invited members of the ideaLaunch production staff and their significant others for dinner at her South End home last Sunday. “That’s nice,” I remember thinking upon receiving her email invitation. “A casual dinner at an associate’s house.” Maybe Kara would throw some dogs on the grill, have a serve-yourself table of potato salad and slaw, and treat us to a cooler stocked with Bud Light.

But this plebeian had it all wrong.

What was in store for us was a culinary ass-whopping of Julia Child proportions. Instead of Dixie plates, paper napkins, and plastic utensils, a table draped with a gleaming white tablecloth set with polished silverware (salad fork and dessert spoon included) and the finest white china greeted us. Printed menus described the three-course regalement plus dessert with adjectives like “panko-crusted” and “spinach- and crab-stuffed ” in an elegant cursive font riddled with French words and accented vowels. Creamy aromas of lobster bisque aroused our senses; instead of Bud Light, we quenched our thirst with Domaine Salliès sauvignon blanc from the Pays d’Oc region in France. All the food, including the sole, was harvested from local New England farms and waters. It was a masterpiece executed in a kitchen fit for a Michelin chef (see photos of the salamander flame and pop-over molds) by a hostess worthy of her own show on the Food Network. Move over, Giada De Laurentiis.

I’d like to extend my gratitude to Kara and her studly partner Andy, pets Mr. Betty the Cat and Genevieve the Dog, for inviting us into their home and upping the office dinner party ante to unreachable echelons. My advice to everyone reading this is to email Kara@ideaLaunch.com right now and hire her to be the star chef of your content marketing needs … before food talent scouts get one whiff and whisk her away.

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