Topic: entertaining

Stress-Free Holiday Entertaining With Goop: Ceramic Fortune Cookie, Anyone?

Stress-Free Holiday Entertaining With Goop: Ceramic Fortune Cookie, Anyone?

“In order to avoid stress we girls at goop have put together a plan to make entertaining fun and stress-free,” writes Gwyneth Paltrow in the latest issue of her vanity publication. How sweet. And what might Gwynnie & the goop gang advise for less stressed holiday entertaining? Oh, just your run of the mill advice on bespoke stationary dinner menus and buying your ceramic fortune cookies in advance. More »

Entertaining While Vegan: Author Cornelia Guest On The Cruelty-Free Life

Entertaining While Vegan: Author Cornelia Guest On The Cruelty-Free Life

Philanthropist and entrepreneur and health advocate Cornelia Guest is perhaps not a typical vegan. The daughter of actor, socialite, and fashion icon C.Z. Guest and polo champion Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, she’s about as blue-blooded as they come. But Guest is also an activist–and an animal lover. Which is what inspired her to write her new bookCornelia Guest’s Simple Pleasures, which blends healthy vegan cooking and baking with high-brown entertaining. More »

Meltware: Extra Dishes When You’re Low on Space

Meltware: Extra Dishes When You're Low on Space

Those of us who live in apartments or houses with limited cabinet space know how frustrating it can be to have a dinner party. We don’t want to resort to wasteful paper plates, but we also don’t want to resort to being the hobo who ask her friends to bring their own dishes. That’s why we love Maaike Seegers’s idea for Meltware. If you need extra dishes, just pour hot Carnauba wax in a mold and watch your new dishes emerge. Then, after the party’s over, just melt the wax down again. More »