Your martinis will thank you kindly.
, and if there’s anything I learned from our conversation, it’s that entertaining isn’t a game of Grand Gestures so much as one of Nice Touches. Pre-chilling cocktail glasses? That’s a Nice Touch, the kind of thing worth doing because it actually makes your guests’ experienceGrand Gestures—like planning a hard-to-execute menu or shaking individual cocktails for each person—are a surefire way to throw you, the host, off your equilibrium. You get frazzled. You lose focus.
“It’s not about showing off,” she counseled. Whether you’re planning a casual dinner for six or a holiday meal for 16, Garten’s advice is clear: Check your ego. Keep it manageable. When you’re relaxed and happy, you have the necessary headspace to remember the Nice Touches. Warming dinner plates. Lighting a. Setting the table before people arrive. And yes, chilling cocktail glasses.
These are the things your guests remember the next day. Not the homemade duck confit you spent three days laboring over because, well, they weren’t there to see your labor . They’re going to remember when you produced frosted martini glasses from the freezer like a magician and handed them a drink that stayed cold to the very last drop.
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