Dinner with a tomato?

"Henry Kissinger is known to enjoy greeting the new class, which requires an essay and interview to get in. Students have intimate dinners with prominent officials like Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte, whose visit entailed heavy security -- helicopters circled above the restaurant while the participants ate. Students also met for an off-the-record session with one of the authors of the 2002 National Security Strategy a week after it was publicly released." I would rather have an intimate dinner with a tomato than with John Negroponte. (thanks Sinan--not the Ottoman architect)