Hosting an Orgy? This 1970s Cookbook Has You Covered

Hosting a dinner party can be scary. It can feel like there’s pressure to be perfect, to set up some elaborate “tablescape” or make food so extravagant, complicated, or Instagrammable that it verges on the absurd. Now there is a significant food writing movement working to counteract that aspirational image. But before Alison Roman’s Nothing […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-12-13 09:49:36 UTC ]
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Who wore it best? Take your pick of Zuckerberg-as-Gulliver covers

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