If you want cooking advice that focuses on making things simple and realistic, you turn to Ina Garten. The same goes for advice about dinner parties and entertaining. Garten has repeatedly centered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emma Sandler is a journalist covering beauty, fashion and wellness. Dinner parties have always held a unique social function. They ...

As a phenomenon, tablescaping is not exactly new: think of 16th-century oil paintings of the opulent banquets of aristocrats and royalty. Yet the art of setting a table has lately experienced a firm ...

Ina Garten, the host of the Food Network's Barefoot Contessa, still remembers a disastrous party she threw when she was 21. She'd invited 20 guests, with the intention of making an individual omelet ...