The Birth of the Fat Drunken Pigs

On a cold December night four beautiful, educated woman discovered a mutual love of food, alcohol and debauchery.  We know this sounds like SATC (you, know Sex and the City) except we have a lot less sex, a lot less Manolos (actually none) and a lot less Cosmos (but we like pink just with bubbles).  So here's the quick breakdown of how we all ended up together on that night- Kate knew Melissa who knew Amanda who knew Molly.  There is much more depth to it but we won't go too much further right now (because we're drinking) but it was love at first sip of our Greek Sparkling Wine.  Our first unofficial gathering was on December 20th, 2007 at Zatinya in Gallery Place.  As we sat there slowly realizing that we all shared a mutual bond of gorging in good food, good friends and good wine our monthly supper club was born.  We ordered rounds of Mediterranean tapas including stuffed grape leaves, hummus, lamb kebabs, falafel, etc.  While discussing how fabulous it was to have fellow female friends, who actually like to eat things other than salad, Amanda proceeded to order a third bottle of wine.  Our dinner conversation quickly moved to a realization that we needed to eat around town on a regular basis and that we needed a name.  We knew that not just any "girly" book club name would work and Amanda promptly slammed her hands down and proclaimed "Fat Drunken Pigs!"  Everyone nodded in simultaneous agreement; thus we were born (and then we drank another bottle of wine.... and we think we had dessert).