Ever After in the Woods: Desert Dining Under the Stars, Four Courses at a Communal Table

They say you shouldn’t talk to strangers, but someone clearly forgot to tell the folks behind this desert dining experience. I recently pulled up a chair at an impossibly long table in the Arizona landscape, surrounded by people I’d never met and views that defied description. As the sun dipped below the horizon, we broke bread together, moving through four courses of food so fresh it felt like a love letter to the land. There’s a strange, beautiful intimacy in sharing a meal with a dozen