# Ep. 95: Dinner Parties

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Podcast: [Silent Generation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/silent-generation-6734898)
Published: 2026-02-16T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://silentgeneration.podbean.com/e/ep-95-dinner-parties/
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## Resource

On this week’s episode of Silent Generation, Nathan and Breanna discuss all things dinner parties. The two begin by discussing what they like about dinner parties and their personal experiences hosting and attending them. They then review common features of traditional dinner parties (cocktail hour, place settings, multiple course meals, and after-dinner entertainment) before detailing how they have changed over time. Amongst other things they discuss how Emily Post and Martha Stewart presented competing visions of the high-effort dinner party, how the depreciation of dining-related antiques demonstrates the decline of dinner parties in America, and how modern dinner parties emphasize a relaxed approach that is best demonstrated by Allison Roman’s Nothing Fancy. Links: Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home by Emily Post How Dinner Parties Became the Fuzzy Blanket of Adulthood by Alissa Wilkinson The Dinners That Shaped History by Brenda Wineapple Eating Together : Food, Friendship and Inequality Alice P. Julier The Pleasure of Your Company (but No Gaucheries, Please!): Dinner Parties in 19th-Century America by mansionmusings Entirely Entertaining: Dishing Dinner Party Trends Through the Decades I Tracked Down The Company Ruining Restaurants The Art of Entertaining Why Dinner Parties Still Matter Entertaining by Martha Stewart Martha (2024) Martha Stewart wheelbarrow clip The Exterminating Angel (1962) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Why the dinner party is a declining art by Harmeet Kaur Politics on the menu in Seoul as Donald Trump dines on shrimp from disputed waters and 360-year-old soy sauce by Nicola Smith Cameron praises Obama at lavish state dinner by Mark Madell Presidents at State Dinners: A Historica…

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