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Your guy’s a slob? This one can help.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Modern Gentleman Jason Tesauro is coming to the ATL to help our guys get it together.
Could the man in your life use an image makeover?
Jason Tesauro to the rescue.
The former Atlantan, author of The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice, will be leading a series of seminars at Maxim Prime, the new restaurant in the Glenn Hotel downtown. The first one is Sticks and Stones: Cigar How-to and Whiskey Wherefores at 7 p.m. June 26.
Classes cover everything from grilling techniques to wine pairing to sartorial splendor and cost $135-$155 per session. See the web site for info.
A New Jersey native, Tesauro lived in Atlanta for seven years after college.
“I fell in love with a Southern belle,” he explained. “I needed a little polishing myself.”
When a neighbor in his Grant Park neighborhood tossed out a heap of books, including a 1958 guide to etiquette by Amy Vanderbilt, he swooped in.
“I thought, this will come in handy when I need to set a tea tray or tell my valet how to dress,” Tesauro said.
Maybe it was the drawings by a young Andy Warhol illusrating the book, but Tesauro was intrigued, then became a collector of vintage etiquette volumes.
He and longtime chum Phineas Mollod soon became enamored of employing proper manners with a dash of rakish charm while making the rounds on the ATL social scene. In 2002 they co-authored The Modern Gentleman, and Tesauro’s career as cultivator of gentlemen began.
Today Tesauro lives in Richmond, Va., with wife Elizabeth and their two small children. Listen up, fellas. Here are his top tips to glam up your game:
Start letting everything that comes out of your mouth be a little more potent and refined.
Don’t saw your food or devour it. Handle yourself with grace, especially on a date.
Every time you are at a business luncheon, order a drink. It shows you know how to handle yourself.
Pair food and drink correctly. Are you ordering Mai Tais with a beautiful steak? At the sports bars, are you ordering pina coladas? (You trying to get kicked out? Beat up?)
It’s OK to moisturize. Some of the manliest men I know have manicured hands, well-groomed mustaches and beautiful clothes, But I still wouldn’t want to meet in a back alley, because they’d kick my a—.*
*Tesauro’s the first to tell you he’s not a perfect gentleman. Just a modern one.
Comments
By Atlanta Pearl Girl
June 15, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this
I applaud the effort to be a ‘cultured’ man. Lord knows we need more of them.
By Mike
June 20, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this
Order a drink at a business luncheon? I think this should be qualified to refer to lunches with current or prospective clients - none of the companies I’ve worked for in the last ten years would approve of having a drink at a lunch with co-workers, especially if you’re expected to return to work afterwards.