Once you learn how bread plates are typically set, accidentally using your neighbor's salad plate to house your second bread roll is easily avoidable.

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After college, I lived for a time in a window-less, $450-a-month room in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a residence I was so ashamed of that I never invited friends over. I shared the apartment with the ...

Today, by several accounts, the dinner party is all but dead.. Young people are seemingly too busy, too burnt out or too broke to bother. Their homes no longer have formal dining rooms, and they ...

1. Wine. Perhaps the easiest—and most classic—gift to bring to a host of a dinner party is a bottle of wine. If you know what the host is planning on serving, you can pick out a bottle that ...

Ingredients: 2 cups half and half. 1 ½ teaspoons Knox powdered gelatin. 2 tablespoons demerara sugar (or dark brown sugar) 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract ...