Photo credit: Janet Donovan
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If hobnobbing is the art of social interaction with ‘higher-ups’ then Joanna Coles – new Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine – does it well. That’s not to say she isn’t herself one of the most powerful women in the world, but when Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and former Secretary of State and Four Star General Colin Powell did a spontaneous drop in at a private dinner in her honor – that we guess, is hobnobbing at its best and exactly what took place at Cafe Milano.
Holly Whidden (Cosmopolitan), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.),Washington Post Fashion Editor Frances Stead Seller and Nancy Pelosi
It was sometime after the the Truffle Scented Taglioni Pasta with a Creamy Pecorino Cheese and Fresh Black Pepper Sauce “Cacio e pepe” Style and the Sauteed Mediterranean Sea Bass Fillet with Baby Zucchini and Baby Leeks in a Heirloom Tomato Emulsion that the ‘hobnobbing’ took place.
Pelosi was dining in the newly refurbished second floor private dining room, while Gen. Powell was dining in the Domingo Room, named after tenor and conductor Placido Domingo. Others quickly followed suit including Rep. John Lewis (Dem. GA) and Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin. We’re just sorry they didn’t make it in time to hear Sen. Klobuchar’s hilarious account on how she raised money for her starter campaign and how it remains a first. “I called everyone I ever knew and set a record that still hasn’t been broken in the United States Senate. I raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends,” she joked.
Amy Klobuchar, Joanna Coles and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii)
Other guests at the dinner hosted by Cafe Milano’s Franco Nuschese, Janet Donovan, Shari Yost Gold and Kimball Stroud included MSNBC’s Karen Finney, Atlantic’s Steve Clemons and Elizabeth Baker Keffer, POLITICO’s Kim Kingsley and Patrick Gavin with wife Anne, Susan McCue of Message Global, Voto Latino’s Maria Teresa Kumar, Susanna Quinn, Emily’s List Stephanie Schriock and Amy Dacey, Washington Life’s Nancy Bagley, artist Izette Folger, Mariella Trager, Refugees International and lobbyist Heather Podesta.
Holly Whidden, Franco Nuschese and Joanna Coles
One on One with Joanna Coles:
