Contact Quote by Tom A. Watson

Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the…

— Ted Allen

Don't insist on involving your fellow diners in a social media brag. If your guest doesn't want to be snapped mid-gorge then respect that…

— Grace Dent

My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care,…

— Chauncey Depew

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that…

— Craig Brown

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard

Casual dehumanization of people was commonplace at the Trump dinner table.

— Mary L. Trump

I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in…

— Jack Handey

If you're going to be hosting any event or a performance or having dinner with people after a performance, it is work, but it's…

— John Tiffany

I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.

— A. A. Gill

I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal…

— Dana Goodyear

Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving…

— P. J. O'Rourke