Hosting can be stressful, but with a few advanced considerations, your dinner can be a memorable—and enjoyable—evening. Here are a few tips excerpted from Sharon and David Bowers’s Home Ec for Everyone.
Tips for a Successful Dinner
- If you’re having more than twelve guests, cater, staff, or provide buffet service.
- Have one or two spares of everything on standby in the kitchen, in case something gets broken or dropped.
- Don’t crowd your guests. If you need space, don’t set out the coffee cup or dessert flatware until the other dishes have been cleared. If it’s very crowded, consider seating guests at two tables.
- Formal tables are beautiful and indicate that an occasion is special and should be treated with honor.
- Just keep in mind of course that, as with all matters of etiquette, your guests’ comfort trumps any rule. Happy dining!
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Discover the tremendous pleasure of learning how to do it yourself how to cook, sew, clean, and more, the way it used to be taught in Home Ec class. With illustrated step by step instructions, plus relevant charts, lists, and handy graphics, Home Ec for everyone offers a crash course in learning 118 practical life skills-everything from frosting the perfect birthday cake to fixing a zipper to whitening a dingy T-shirt to packing a suitcase (the right way). It’s all made clear in plain, nontechnical language for any level of DIYer, and it comes with a guarantee: No matter how simple the task, doing it with your own two hands provides a feeling of accomplishment that no app or device will ever give you.
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