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In a fantasy world, we would throw lavish dinners effortlessly, like French people in movies, with appropriately ambient jazz playing in the background, and artfully mismatched antique plates. The wine would flow freely. The children would be asleep. And the food! Oh, the food would be a multi-course parade of fresh delicacies, which we prepared (effortlessly) in our endless free time, probably to the strains of more ambient jazz.

But the radical secret is that none of that is necessary. A dinner party is a chance to a) see your friends more and b) eat dinner. That is all. It doesn’t have to be fancy. You don’t even have to clean the house. Roast pheasants are good, but so is lasagna from the freezer.

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