Alison Roman Is Calling BS on Dinner Party Traditions

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Very rarely are dinner parties about the food on the table. Throughout the history of evening mealtime gatherings, hosting was never so much about feeding friends and family as it was about flaunting wealth. From the dinner tables of ancient Greece and Rome to Victorian England and suburban America, an underlying sense of class anxiety has motivated us to call our social circles to the table in an attempt not to display our skills in the kitchen, but rather our banquet halls, china patterns and dedicated dining rooms. Alison Roman is calling bullshit on all that. She’s been compared to Julia Child and Martha Stewart for her knack for empowering even the least experienced cooks to find joy in the kitchen, but this self-described “older millennial” cringes at the word “entertaining” where the domestic goddesses of yore leaned into it. Alison joined us in studio to talk about her new cookbook, Nothing Fancy (out October 22), and how she's redefining the art of the dinner party. We're also joined by Nisha Chittal, a Vox.com journalist, to talk about the history of entertaining at home, and why millennials are doing it differently than their parents. Then we get into the biggest food stories of the week, from Rachel Ray's new "ghost" restaurant, to the rise of the sushi bro and that viral Panera TikTok video. Stories: • Did Millennials Kill the Dinner Party? • Top Notch Sushi with a Side of Bro • Is Panera Making Sous Vide Mac & Cheese? Featuring: Nisha Chittal (@NishaChittal) Alison Roman (@alisoneroman) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. From the newsroom at Eder, I'm Amanda Cloot. And I'm Daniel Janine. And this is Eder's
0:49.4	Digest, a show about all things food and dining. With a little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the journalists here at
0:57.2	Eater, we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens, restaurants, and dining rooms
1:01.1	around the world.
1:02.1	Today on the show, we are going to be talking about the dinner party.
1:06.0	First we'll talk about the history and the evolution of the dinner party with the
1:08.8	journalist from box.com and then we will chat with the woman who is on the front lines of a modern day entertaining
1:15.2	Ms. Allison Roman whose new cookbook comes out next week.
1:19.5	Then we'll tackle this week's biggest food stories including Panera's interesting way of cooking macaroni
1:25.2	and cheese, Walmart's entry into the food delivery space, and sushi bros with our our special guest Ryan Sutton.
1:36.0	First up on the show we have Nisha Chital.
1:38.6	She is the engagement editor at Vox.com
1:41.2	and she wrote an incredible piece about the ways in which millennials
1:43.7	are changing dinner party traditions. Welcome to the show, Nisha.
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