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Alison Roman is Calling BS on Dinner Party Traditions

October 18, 2019 05:00

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Very rarely are dinner parties about the food on the table. Throughout the
history of evening mealtime gatherings, hosting was never so much about
feeding friends and family as it was about flaunting wealth. From the dinner
tables of ancient Greece and Rome to Victorian England and suburban America,
an underlying sense of class anxiety has motivated us to call our social
circles to the table in an attempt not to display our skills in the kitchen,
but rather our banquet halls, china patterns and dedicated dining rooms.
Alison Roman is calling bullshit on all that. She’s been compared to Julia
Child and Martha Stewart for her knack for empowering even the least
experienced cooks to find joy in the kitchen, but this self-described “older
millennial” cringes at the word “entertaining” where the domestic goddesses of
yore leaned into it. Alison joined us in studio to talk about her new
cookbook, Nothing Fancy (out October 22), and how she's redefining the art of
the dinner party. We're also joined by Nisha Chittal, a Vox.com journalist, to
talk about the history of entertaining at home, and why millennials are doing
it differently than their parents. Then we get into the biggest food stories
of the week, from Rachel Ray's new "ghost" restaurant, to the rise of the
sushi bro and that viral Panera TikTok video. Stories: • Did Millennials Kill
the Dinner Party? • Top Notch Sushi with a Side of Bro • Is Panera Making Sous
Vide Mac & Cheese? Featuring: Nisha Chittal (@NishaChittal) Alison Roman
(@alisoneroman) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel
Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel
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