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    Get Back To Entertaining Family And Friends This Summer With 3 Simple Recipes

    As people begin entertaining at home again, we all have to do what makes us comfortable. But keeping the food fresh and simple seems to be a solution everyone agrees with.
    Jun 17, 2021 4 minutes
    Cold sesame noodles with sautéed snap peas and shrimp (Kathy Gunst)

    The cover of the June 14, 2021 issue of The New Yorker shows a woman hanging up a jacket in a closet. The living room is filled with a small party with unmasked guests holding drinks, chatting. But the inside of the closet are shelves of hand sanitizer, masks, toilet paper and bags of flour — representing everything about the pandemic.

    The living room filled with maskless friends seems to illustrate the new now. The cover illustrates so perfectly the conflict many of us feel these days between the old — COVID, fear, precautions — and the new — friends, family, indoors and parties.

    Many people have been vaccinated. Mask restrictions are being lifted in dozens of states and people are slowly getting back to a “new normal.” How do we let go of our pandemic fears and reenter the world? What does it mean for home entertaining and sharing meals with family and friends both outdoors and indoors?

    I put out a call on Facebook to see if folks were entertaining and how they felt about it. There were certain themes that

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