I also like how Fisher critiques hosts for their enthusiasm over taste or skill.
She describes a host: “... with no innate good taste, whose meals are incredibly and coarsely and vulgurly overlaborate and rich, but present them with such high spirits that they are unfailingly delightful.”
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I liked this description, too. It goes back to the idea of the host's attitude being infectious. I admit I'm probably guilty of not showing enough enthusiasm as a host. I'm always nervous when I'm serving new recipes to people, and I sometimes wind up apologizing for the food's potential shortcomings before anyone has even tried it. I can see how that would lessen my guests' enthusiasm for the meal.
We've had guests?
Sorry, by "guests," I meant Kim and George.
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