The Weirdest Advice From Vintage Entertaining Guides
The entertaining guides of the 20th century are full of rules about how to fold napkins, who to invite to your dinner party, and what and what not to serve.
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The entertaining guides of the 20th century are full of rules about how to fold napkins, who to invite to your dinner party, and what and what not to serve.
If the ceremony had had a kiss cam, they would have been its main event.
The invitation in this and in all these moments of invitation is to notice our ordinary and our sacred lives are not two. Bringing Zen home.
The Internet is writhing over a dinner guest who claims they were charged to attend a dinner party after the fact — despite bringing gifts as "a gesture of goodwill."
Since wine is all about enjoyment and not ceremony, columnist Allen Balik finds it best to overlook most perceived formalities as you savor what’s in the glass.