David Shaw Stalked by Veal Stew

When David Shaw mentioned several months ago in his LAT ‘Matters of Taste’ column that people didn’t invite him and his wife to dinner parties, he received more than thirty emailed invitations from strangers. He accepted three of them (Sample criteria: “I also picked a reader who had e-mailed me about other food and wine columns, and who has a daughter in our son’s school. All that seemed to suggest we might find something to talk about.”)