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" I learned WNYC in this week's online video picks her up on our web site each week we select five web videos and anchor them on our site this week's picks include. One of Mark Sanford infidelity apology. Had the same left track as David Letterman it's -- or five web video pics at wnyc.org. Slash video. And is the thought of cooking dinner at home for twenty make you break out in hives. Not true for my next guests who've been doing just that about twice a month that -- story that dining club Sunday night dinners. Cameron -- Reynolds and Zora O'Neal are true believers looking for converts to their cause. With their new book. And this is the FCC approved cleaned up version of -- Forking fantastic. Put the party back in dinner party. Welcome back to W -- the camera and or may extricate here and this is progress -- book -- how to and I guess when it comes to dinner parties. The cooking is an all you have to think of right."

" No but I it's it's still the main thing people get too caught up -- belittle other details like cleaning house from top to bottom and like selected in the music and making sure the plates matched in fact really the cooking -- the main thing you have to concentrate and in the typical New York apartment renting the folding chairs. Right the right now you can even gusts of -- to ask your friends to bring their on chair."

" So we can take a few calls for our guests do you have a favorite dinner party trick to share or what stops you from throwing more parties may be minutes guests. We'll be able to offer solutions to 12433. WNYC. 2124339692. We have about ten minutes to wrap this up today after we've been. Through suburban sprawl and public transportation and the Nobel Peace Prize and you know branding with your weekend dinner parties or why you don't have them 212433. 9692. Never really somebody to bring their own chaired."

" Yeah oh yeah he has done Super -- their own spin once we had to do. I mean why be hindered by not having infrastructure like that that's should be the last thing that injured that hinders you from having people over year on."

" on Fire Island I think is gonna type the entire show together hi John under the --"

" Say yeah -- I think in the next day we're gonna you're. A lot of suggestions about. People who should've won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Barack Obama and first comes to mind for me -- camera. That's sixty I I -- I didn't Paterson and I finishers several times. And yet through the the plate of the guy next it was probably not going to look like yours. And what you know one of one of the many takeaways that. That that I have from a meeting with them is that it you know it should be fired first and foremost and -- shouldn't get hung up on. I'm all these things you know on whether or not your all's well -- triple extra virgin and all these things that you know people sort of upset about the war. You know getting back to the fact that it should just be really fun."

" Slow. -- hasn't done anything to solve world hunger but a lot of you -- I fed a lot of people."

" Any estimate as to how many people you've finished I don't know I was thinking about that recently it's been like six years and yeah I'd say easily. Somewhere between 2002000 maybe because yeah we've got like 450 people on -- list and there's people have for all -- when he -- occasion people come in from out of town meeting in the Bronx hasn't dinner party trick I mean yeah."

" I have you have -- So my dinner party trick I was sang as I have my kids make plays cards with my guessing names on them."

" Because I find that people get a little awkward in the opening moments I -- know where they're supposed to Serbs who this group to --"

" It sounds childish but to bring respect and nervous system grade school who's going to be my friend who's gonna -- me to having assigned seating with a nice welcoming place Skype with your name. How people feel comfortable good enough to make that decision and then. I can arrange proceeding with the best conversational give and take."

" for how many people may well what do you think is the minimum. For you to go to assigned --"

" The minimum as I have I usually do families and coming up with so I have. You know two or three families of four or five people -- definitely need -- kind of seeding for the."

" The -- you're so gracious week. Every guy and we never had it -- just let people sinkers land."

" in the news it's the difference between the traditional preschool. And the progressive school act --"

" Yeah I've got to give her credit that's a great way to get your kids involved the tube because you want them to have a little projects on us not to make it happen. And them involves using all your guests at -- you reached."

" Enabling your NW NIC hi Rachel."

" I can't nations. Believe that amen and you know. Where -- content to where we can't -- ally and then. Everybody I'm being really delicious and it brings that Oprah and I elite -- on a -- punch for every line. And then we know and and the top three -- winner yet I little prizes that I take out. And lay out -- make it donations that community food bank -- in their -- Real way to get everyone together -- I can't happen and now we cut thing."

" For a derby contest though have you have any friendships ended in your home over the winners and there isn't --"

" Everyone has been there."

" Very good -- candidate and I'm not be linked by the end that it doesn't really."

" Thank you for calling and -- where Reynolds and Zora Neil are here talking about their new book. Forking fantastic putting the party back in dinner party. Where you draw the line when it comes to entertain plastic forks I think human. So yeah we -- this desert with a soup ladle. "

" No plastic forks soup label illegals yes at a that I know it's a fuzzy. That's a fuzzy line we tend to if we don't have something we try to buy it at goodwill or on eBay or our people went in and out of cities sometimes give us donations of things that they're gonna leave behind silverware plates that's why nothing matches and -- comes. We are much more focused on you know now we do you have enough forks is everything we we don't use paper towels we always use cloth napkins. It just sort of says I care about you enough to do laundry. And and you know. Regular it's cutlery. Barrett global and jars for classes class where you if you if you spot something in -- you conserve some wanna drink it's okay. You don't need to have -- wine glasses your your fine if that's fine."

" Meredith in the east -- agenda here and I see how Meredith."

" I. Can't stand that I can -- did say that. I really do love having dinner party at my friend and we do keep an informal but one of my ears that in the path. Which. I think some of my friends still have that fear is that there won't be enough. This kind of -- cars that -- one extra person or two extra people come and then everybody doesn't get too gigantic plates of food. And I completely get that here because the importance is that the little together and is there. You know inning triple servings for everyone not just fine because we're all pretty much lucky enough to have an abundance of food in our homes. I think it's really important not to be afraid that I'd he might run out and that's all right he's not."

" It's it's a great point yeah it is yet -- affair realize that takes people along time to get to that point I feel it has never been to a dinner party or family function where they weren't -- of food yes over at the end we'll -- everybody wondered what to do. Right -- I never knowingly under catered we have fairy often. Especially in the early days before we are very organized. Went from serving you know making dinner for eight people to making dinner for eighteen people over the course of the afternoon because people kept calling. So we kind of got pushed to that point -- like well just make -- of the fish and it'll all be fine. Oh yeah Stanley style service can also help you combat that. If you don't if you're not focused on making up everyone's plate for them people Will Self regulate the looked on the table and I'll say oh look I've taken a ton of this celery -- Ran a lot of there's a bunch people who didn't get any and and --"

" Nancy on our website asks would love to hear guests suggestion on how I can do dinner parties in my 200 square foot apartment."

" Very carefully moved all the furniture and a huge fan of what I -- heroic furniture moving and making over the apartment like. I have noticed and the catch up on its end or use that couch as -- on one side of the table just get super creative and it's located totally. Dear partner. That's that's worth it standing dinner parties that UK but you can also pull your -- off off of it -- like your bedroom door if you want or not about -- perhaps but another door. And you know -- across a couple of years and you have your table in the east and less than you know WNYC and Denise."

" I I just love you girls having huge dinner parties. And sending out -- is have a party have fun everything that we have to match. They did I hurt you in the area to put the -- I just think it's great. Yeah -- them when you think -- we haven't had a blowout accused of Bacardi dot com works. Split you know it's it's."

" Everybody's outside god she is bombs on everybody's invited. All the it bonfire is its --"

" So -- Thanksgiving release thank you very much now we're gonna run out of time but. Let's see I think sim online fund has a problem and -- online forum has a solution so Sam what's your problem real -- regular."

" I mean I used to throw enormous dinner parties and frequent dinner parties and then my daughter was born and I know that fit your kept just saying that. On you know get kids involved but -- when they're tiny baby to sleep and then it be when they're bigger based only to -- will be occupied."

" Sosa has. Hang on here's Trisha in Wilton Tricia."

" Hi I'm I have affliction because when the big problem is people have kids and we've built -- and probably it -- seen by -- with their kids. They read that table from -- the chart table. And what I had it at -- stacking -- I eighteen and that backed up and that has 28 so we can really know how next and it becomes the table but it caught and then they eat a paper like he had given -- The kids can be --"

" How are -- IA's campaign and I sorry thank you -- Sam mugs -- solve your problem or not so much on the upper west side."

" You know I don't think my apartment. 28. It could be right on it but if."

" Crayons walls. And a bucket of -- for evidence until we do encourage people to. Start bringing the kids early you want to expose your kids to have things like big dinners like this I think it's good for the -- and we're biased because that's how we grew up but still."

" One minute left you include instructions in this book for building your own -- In order to roast a whole land is that the most advanced undertaking in the book."

" I guess yeah yeah nice yeah I think that's the one that requires the most special year and a whole animal which automatically raises the stakes. Hole and a whole animals. Do you still run your Sunday night dinners and still take new -- absolutely absolutely they should feel -- I think you guys house on the website they can click through an email through and let us know that they're not ax murderers and we'll email them back to ever wanna run an actual restaurant not a little -- of we just want to tell people that they should have people over and I'm gonna party."

" And they want you -- blood and new book before -- fantastic put the party back in dinner parties or a O'Neill and hammer Reynolds. Great fun as always thank you so much thank you Kris Allison security over them and page count. Produce this program. Conservative. I'm missing somebody from a missing. I'm missing. -- marking produced this program all week we had in turn help this week from Neil McCabe just. Tell our history Rachel senatorial. And Mary -- and our senior producer is -- Ryan a steady fountain at the audio controls have a great weekend everyone. Even if period hello I'm Brian."

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