How to host now: Ravinder Bhogal, Max Hurd, Sky McAlpine and Henry Holland's tips for a stylish soiree
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The nights have drawn in and the kitchen windows are steaming up as pans jostle for space on the hob… yes, it’s hosting season once more.
With sunny afternoons sponsored by rosé swapped for more nourishing pursuits, how are the capital’s most consummate hosts entertaining their guests?
Home-cooking is still the order of the day, but so long as your playlist is fun and your table is ’scaped to within an inch of its life, guests will turn a blind eye to dialling in help from Just Eat.
We asked four tastemakers on their rituals and hacks to make your dinner party run that bit smoother this winter.
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Over to Skye McAlpine’s place for convivial home cooking
McAlpine is a cook, Sunday Times food columnist and author of several cookbooks. Her pop-up shop selling her homewares range, Tavola, is open daily at 10 William Street, Belgravia, SW1X, until December 16
I love hosting friends at my home; from third helpings of pudding
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