Time for another episode of The Table Set.

It’s spring everywhere you look here in Southern California and The Table Set has all sorts of seasonal entertaining planned. It’s the perfect time of year for parties in Palm Springs. It also seems the birthdays of friends just come faster and faster. Keeping us on our toes. So we have a new segment debuting this week. It asks the age old question, “Where’s the Party?”

The weather is beautiful. The flowers are in bloom. So it didn't take long for us to figure out that our next party would be a Garden Party. All it takes is a pretty place and beautiful spring day, right? Well, yes. But sometimes it’s good to have something a bit more. Which means it’s time to turn once again to The Hot Pot for inspiration. But let me warn you, strange things can bubble out of The Hot Pot so this may be one odd-ball Garden Party.

The Hot Pot is another occasional segment on The Table Set. It’s a melting pot where ideas are thrown randomly together, then drawn one by one from the pot to be discussed for your aural entertainment. Only it’s not really a pot. It’s a museum quality Jens Quistgaard designed teak salad bowl from the 1960s. I think Don Draper has one. Or did Betty get it in the divorce?