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The Dinner Party Is Dead. Long Live the Dinner Party | Bon Appétit

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We've tried the cheap impressions of Martha Stewart excellence. Are we finally ready to relax?

This story is part of The New Rules of Dinner Parties , a new collection of advice, recipes, and perspectives on one of the things we’ve missed the most. Read all the stories here . Nora Ephron, the writer and filmmaker, said that a round table works best for a dinner party. At a long rectangular table, she wrote, some guests could be left unable to take part in the conversation. M.F.K. Fisher, the grande dame of food writing, would say no more than six people should sit at that round table, and no two of them should be so in love as to bore everyone else. Martha Stewart suggests the host pick

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