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Until a few months ago, the thought of hosting a dinner party filled me with dread. I was convinced that to invite people to dine in my home, the space needed to be sparkling clean. The meal needed to ...

“A good dinner is of great importance to good talk,” Virginia Woolf, a professed fan of the feast, writes in “A Room of One’s Own.” But it’s taken me nearly two decades to understand that one ...