'Don't give up': Martha Stewart admits the dinner party can be 'exhausting', but insists it isn't dead yet
In 2012, The New York Times claimed, "The seated dinner, with its minuet of invitation and acceptance, its formalities and protocols, its culinary and dietary challenges, its inherent requirements of guest and host alike is under threat."
More recently, there have been some claims and reports dinner parties are in decline. Even food icon dinner parties.
It's recently been claimed younger generations simply don't have the time, energy or money to have people around for dinner. Others say the classic dinner party is back, while others suggest they're back but in a much smaller and more casual form.
But who better to ask about the art of the traditional dinner party other than culinary queen Martha Stewart?
Watch the video above.
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Martha Stewart has urged people to not give up on dinner parties and said they're ''worth it". Instagram
Stewart is known for her love of a classic dinner party – and has wholeheartedly urged those who also love to entertain to not "give up'' on the festivity.
Speaking to 9Honey during a roundtable talk ahead of her visit to Australia for the In Conversation With Martha Stewart event as part of Vivid Sydney, Stewart, 83, champions the art of hosting people for dinner.
The TV host and author, who has just released her milestone 100th book called Martha, The Cookbook, admits hosting a dinner party can be "exhausting," but insists they are so "worth it".
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"I have managed to put good food on my table for a very long time," Stewart says. marthastewart48/Instagram
Stewart even recently hosted 45 guests for an Easter Sunday luncheon and a decadent spread.
"I have managed to put good food on my table for a very long time and it's not so hard once you get in the groove," Stewart says.
"I had a huge lunch party on Easter Sunday, I had 45 people for lunch and and we had the most delicious spread and a wonderful Easter egg hunt.
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"It's exhausting, it's hard to do, you can't get around it, but we had such a good time and everybody had a delightful afternoon.
"It's worth it, so don't give up on the dinner parties with your friends!"
Stewart also suggested her new book as a go-to for recipes and inspiration.
"It has 100 of my favourite recipes in it and you can take any one of those receipes, the salad, the first course, the main course and dessert and have a successful dinner party and some of them are very easy," she says.
Stewart and her team have an abundance of dinner party ideas, themes and recipes on her official marthastewart.com website.
It's not just all about the food for Stewart, but also the decorations and displays.
She revealed one of her table settings for Easter 2023, complete with napkins folded like bunny ears on pale green plates and Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit place settings.
The celebrity chef and author has previously spoken about her love of dinner parties both big and small, previously telling Refinery29: "Christmas is open house, with a couple hundred people, and neighbours and friends come."
"I open up all the buildings on my property, and the horses are out."
"But I do like to entertain at small dinner parties – I do that quite often."
So, if culinary queen Martha Stewart says dinner parties aren't dead yet, off we go to plan a decadent dinner with friends.
Tickets are available now for Martha Stewart In Conversation, which will be held at Vivid Sydney on Wednesday, 28 May.
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