How to Host a Dinner Party

By Arthur Thares

The Dinner Party is a lost art and Awesome House Blog wants to bring it back! You will find yourself laughing out loud while learning how to be the ultimate dinner party host in this highly entertaining and enlightening book. The Author, Arthur Thares, is the blogger behind awesomhouseblog.com and the author behind the equally funny money saving book Living Rich for Less. Seriously if you are thinking about hosting a dinner party buy this book, if you are not thinking about hosting a dinner party buy this book and you will start thinking about it. Have fun and enjoy a light and informative read with clean humor and pictures of yummy looking food.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthur Thares
• Release date: Aug 14, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310133060

Arthur Thares

Arthur Thares is a passionate writer with the goal to entertain and maybe teach a little something along the way. He loves to write everything fiction and when it comes to non-fiction he has found niches in home, fitness, technology, and parenting categories. Arthur lives in Minnesota with his wife and two daughters and is always working toward his goal of being a full time writer and dad. Arthur has been lucky enough to write for many websites, some major and some not so much as well as writing or his own blogs awesomehouseblog.com and movingpicturebox.com. He has also published multiple books including How to Host a DInner Party, Living Rich or Less, and Monsters Don'e Exist and 11 Other Stories with Killer Endings.

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How to Host a Dinner Party

An Awesome House Blog.com Book

By Arthur Thares

How to Host a Dinner Party

Arthur Thares

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Copyright © 2014 Arthur Thares

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Chapter 1: The Set Up

The dinner party seems to be a lost art. Now-a-days people are so enthralled with their phones and tablets that a dinner party would be six or more people sitting around a table texting someone else that they are either having so much fun or wishing they were somewhere else. The dinner party is something that needs to make a comeback in this country and Awesome House Blog wants to make that happen. The problem is that we are so far gone from a once standard event that most of us don’t know where to start.

Close your eyes and imagine a scene that we have only caught glimpses of on our television sets. Imagine fifteen people, maybe lifelong friends, maybe most of them are complete strangers with only the host in common. The table is set in a fashion that you would usually only find at a wedding or some other event too formal for sandwiches. The white table cloth offers an elegant background to the floral style plates that are trimmed with gold edging. Each plate is flanked by a bevy of silverware each with their purpose and each person counting on the person next to them to know said purpose.

There are no screens of any sort to be seen, just people, people talking to people. There are people talking about important things in their lives, people having lively discussions about issues, all with no one looking down at their phones every three seconds. In the background there is the light melodic sound of piano jazz music setting an ambiance without drowning out the conversation. The music is accompanied by the light clicking and clanking of glasses as people enjoy some pre-dinner drinks. The host comes out from the kitchen to announce that dinner will be ready shortly and these people, the best friends, the strangers all take their seat together at a communal table to enjoy each other’s company.

This scene used to be a common one in the United States. We used to care about interpersonal relationships and food that was made out of actual food. Now we have to pick up a bucket of chicken on the way home so our families can stuff it down their throats while watching the latest episode of Doctors Having Sex.

There are a million reasons why the dinner party has been slowly fading from pop culture over the last couple decades. We let things like soccer practice, TV, messy houses, and strange work schedules get in the way of a truly wonderful experience. All of these issues are challenging, but none of them are concrete. You do not have to host a dinner party ever week, and maybe