Last weekend Rick Marek, President of the prestigious real estate leasing boutique, Vortex Group, hosted an annual summer cocktail party with tall drinks and big servings of Wendeen’s homemade lobster salad at his luxurious Watermill spread.
Longtime friends, Rick and Wendeen began their respective careers in the same year–more than a few years ago and are known to visit with each other and mutual friends on Marek’s manicured lawn each summer. En route to the lawn this year, Wendeen chatted up a crowd in the cook’s borrowed kitchen including the likes of Latin rainmaking lawyer Carlos Mendez Penate and his wife Ellen who joined Rick and his weekend house guests for dinner and a rousing, yet polite, conversation on political hot button issues of the day.
