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TheDinner 
ByGarAllen
 
 AComrehensiveGuide 
 
Complete With ManyDelicious Recipes
 
Introduction
Welcome to the Fabbynosh dinner party guide a simple walkthrough of all the essentials needed to make a great evening evenbetter. Being brought up in a Naval family where etiquette wasalways important at home and especially at the meal table. Havingformal mess dinners I suppose I’ve become a bit of a perfectionistin these matters. If you speak to my wife she will tell you I driveher insane with checking for smudges on glasses and ensuring thecutlery is positioned correctly etc, to be honest I don’t think I’mWhen you are going to have guests over you need to decide if you are going tohave a casual meal or a formal dinner party, then plan and prepare accordingly. Weall put a tremendous amount of time into preparing the food and making sure wethat bad, well maybe
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.ave t e r g t w nes etc, ut ensur ng t e ta e s set correct y an your guests arehosted well is just as important and often overlooked by the budding cook who ismore focused on the kitchen.Everyone will have their own spin on the various facets of a great dinner party, inthis book I have captured the way I do things in a way that can be used as a guidefor part or all of your preparations. My philosophy is simple, have a passion forwhat you do, a pervasive commitment to quality, and inexorable attention todetail, all of which are essential contributory factors in the pursuit of excellence.Happy dining
Gary 
"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food“ Hippocrates, Greek physician 460 BC 
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Planning
The first thing you need to do is determine who will be attending, this is a mustbecause it will determine what and how (formal or informal) you will be serving. Agood tip for your first dinner party is to invite friends and family, any slip-ups will belaughed off and the feedback will be honest. You need know what your guests food,good comfortable number but remember not to squeeze the table setting if youhave a small dining area, only invite enough to have an entertaining evening thatfeels personal and not too crampedmind, this is the center piece and will dictate your starter, desert and wines etc andwill allow you to select and prepare the right tableware. We will cover the menu inmore detail later.ow cons er your seat ng p an, try to a ternate ma e an ema e avo ng s tt ngpartners next to each other, this will help in generating good conversation. Thehost and hostess should sit at opposite ends of the table, who ever is cookingshould sit nearest to the kitchen access so you are not pushing past your guestswhen popping out to check on the next course.Now it’s time to think about preparing the crockery andsilverware you will need to set the table and ensuring ithas all been checked for finger marks etc. Place all thedust settling. Doing this in advance will allow you to go off and search for that elusive knife or fork which is missingfrom a set and probably hiding in the day to day cutlerydrawer, “I speak from experience”.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.Sir Winston Churchill 
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