A guide to hosting the modern day dinner party

Cooking for friends this weekend? As we settle in to 2017, Ciara McDonnell brings us the do’s and don’ts of the modern day dinner party.

A guide to hosting the modern day dinner party

My childhood is littered with memories of elaborate dinner parties thrown by my parents.

Great believers in child labour, my siblings and I were put to work in the kitchen, crushing garlic, soaking boudoir biscuits in coffee and brandy and shining the proper silver cutlery in anticipation of the evening ahead.

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