(Yah, I know. It's been a while. I'm lame)With mandatory wine consumption quotas and creative menus, Sunday dinners chez Carpetblogger- Producer have always been a coveted invitation. Not surprisingly, given the volatility of some of the guests, dinners get out of hand from time to time. What started out as a low key event with a small, well-behaved guest list on Sunday night turned into a near-riot that involved a rusty meat cleaver, at least 15 neighbors and a midnight trip to the police station.We often make fun of our gentrifying, too-cute-by-half Cihangir
neighborhood. With its twee cafes, gourmet food stores and antique
shops, it's easy to forget that there are plenty of residents of "Yabanc?? K??y"(foreigner village, as we call it) who don't spend their days sitting in Kahvedan....