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tions that matched up, and that

alone is not enough to make sparks

fly. Two straight women who were

matched with each other remarked

that it was a typical D.C. situation:

Come to a matchmaking event and

get set up with a woman because

there’s only one straight man.

“I fundamentally believe good

food leads to good conversation,”

says Amanda McDonald Crowley,

an Australian woman who came

down from New York for the event.

She’s been in the United States for

14 years and was paired with a gay

man, Regie Cabico, and even

though it wasn’t a love match, he

was still trying to talk her into

moving to Washington for the ca-

reer opportunities. They bonded

over the food — she snapped a

photo of one of his dishes, and

Cabico commented about how

Americans rarely take the time to

savor their meals, instead focusing

on convenience and speed.

Despite the conviviality, the din-

ers weren’t as open to transform-

ing their love lives as completely as

Wey might want. When Wey asked

the group, after dinner, if anyone

would commit to dating only im-

migrants for a year, the room was

silent.

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want to know?

Novel experiences like this one

can be aphrodisiacs, but love is a

tricky recipe to get just right. Only

one pairing had sexual orienta-

anyone in the world, whom would

you want as a dinner guest? If a

crystal ball could tell you the truth

about yourself, your life, the future

or anything else, what would you

questions to fall in love, an experi-

ment for building intimacy that

was popularized by a New York

Times Modern Love column. Ques-

tions such as: Given the choice of

think about how they might use

love as a political tool. “The out-

come is not as important as the

demonstration,” Wey says of his

dinners, adding that “in a climate

where immigrants have been vili-

fied by the administration and oth-

er folks... I’m actively trying to

bring folks together to be in love.”

How does it work out in prac-

tice? Only eight participants

showed up to Wey’s first D.C. din-

ner, part of Thamee’s supper club

series in which chefs of color can

use the kitchen and dining room

free.

The atmosphere was certainly

romantic: Pairs were seated at inti-

mate tables, under soft lighting,

many drinking a signature cocktail

called Love Will Bloom — Prosecco

mixed with cognac, lemon juice

and egg white, topped with a dried

strawberry to represent the heart

and chamomile to represent love’s

potential. In an attempt to prompt

deep conversation, each course ar-

rived with selections from the 36

season. On the show, foreign na-
tionals have just three months to
decide whether they’ll stay and
marry their American partner or
go back home. Wey’s experiment,
however, lasts just a few hours.
He thought it was especially
important to make a stop in Wash-
ington, given the Trump adminis-
tration’s antagonistic attitude
toward undocumented immi-
grants. RapidVisa, a company that
helps people get K-1 fiance visas,
reports that the District, along
with Alaska and Hawaii, receive
the most K-1 entrants per capita.
Wey, himself an immigrant who
married a U.S. citizen, is careful to
point out that he’s more of a pro-
vocateur than a love professional.
“I’m not Dr. Ruth,” he says in an
interview before the dinner he
hosted earlier this month at
Thamee on H Street NE. “I’m not
trying to find your life partner.”
But he does want singles to

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