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How To Host It

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Could you love cold soup?

    On a hot summer’s day, this is a dish best served chilled, says Laila Gohar

    Laila Gohar serves her yoghurt and beet soup
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar’s rites of spring

    Celebrate the end of winter with a suitcase full of vegetables

    Laila Gohar (far right) prepares the spring feast with Ramdane Touhami and Victoire de Taillac in their Paris home
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Food & Drink
    How to host an Easter banquet

    From hot cross buns to the perfect lamb, five cooks share their secrets to a flawless feast 

    Skye McAlpine Tavola Lido side plates, £130 for four
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Bring your dinner to boiling point

    Think simmered meats are a mistake? Try Laila Gohar’s bollito misto and think again

    Gohar and her partner Ignacio preparing a salsa verde to serve with the bollito misto
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar serves up an alternative Valentine

    Say it with homemade chocolate

    The author with her friend the chocolatier and designer Rafael Prieto, tempering the liquid chocolate on a marble slab
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Dishes from my Egyptian childhood

    Artist Laila Gohar finds comfort in food from her Cairo upbringing

    The author and her mother eat stuffed courgette
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    HTSIThe taste of Christmas
    How to shuck it

    Nothing says celebration like an oyster

    Laila Gohar’s oyster party spread, with oysters, steamed lobster, razor clams – and a lobster-shaped orange blossom cake (at top)
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
    Ashley Longshore: ‘All the real magic happens after midnight’

    The multimedia artist brings elevated kitsch to a New York gallery gathering

    Longshore’s guests raise a glass
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    HTSIThe taste of Christmas
    Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch: ‘We never want people to feel like they have to leave’

    The founders of Roman and Williams and RW Guild take the festivities outside at their Montauk home

    From left: jewellery designer Ope Omojola, Colin King, Standefer, Alesch, food stylist Alison Attenborough (seated), Sarah Natkins, florist Alex Crowder, food stylist Daphne Birch, stylist Elevine Berge, Cassandra Perez and Michael Foley (seated), co-founders of design studio Plot 1, and Roman and Williams business and strategy VP Federica Milan
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
    Ryan Chetiyawardana creates a ‘house party’ mood at his Thameside bar

    ‘Serving Martinis to a big group loses its finesse quite quickly’

    From left: Hot Feet director Hen Norton, photographer Christina Kernohan and Ryan Chetiyawardana
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
    Alex Eagle: ‘It’s cosy, which really works with the gothic vibe’

    The creative director opens the stately Oakley Court to a wide circle of friends

    Alex Eagle prepares cocktails
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Food & Drink
    How to host a jamón party

    Laila Gohar gets her hands on a ham

  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a summer party 
    Rosh Mahtani: ‘Mum and I will make these little pockets of love’

    The Alighieri jewellery designer serves her family’s favourite Indian dishes

    Making the kachori: “little parcels of peas”
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a summer party 
    Margherita Cardelli Cavaliere and Gerardo Cavaliere: ‘You don’t leave the table until the important discussion gets resolved’

    The founders of Giuliva Heritage gather loved ones for a traditional Italian Sunday lunch

    Margherita Cardelli Cavaliere with her husband Gerardo Cavaliere and Lorena Stamo, general coordinator of Macro Museum’s activities
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a summer party 
    JJ Martin: ‘I’ve relaxed into the beautiful chaos that is Italy’

    The LaDoubleJ founder brings a touch of ‘California sunshine’ to celebrations in her adopted home of Milan

    From left: fashion designer Sara Battaglia, La DoubleJ founder JJ Martin and marketing consultant Marina Piano
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    FT SeriesHow to host a summer party 
    Tamara and Natasha Surguladze: ‘In Georgia, a meal can last all day’

    The twins behind Tata Naka know how to make their guests feel important

    Tamara (left) and Natasha Surguladze
  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar throws a Dia de Ñoquis-style feast

    The artist puts her spin on the South American tradition of throwing a pasta party before payday

    A wooden board adds ridges to the gnocchi
  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Food & Drink
    How to cast the perfect dinner party

    Laila Gohar’s guide to curating a guest list

    Guests Justin Padgett and Haider Ackermann, co-host Michael Bargo, Louis Mueller and Hailey Benton Gates
  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Food & Drink
    How to throw a large-scale party

    Don’t be afraid of serving fish, says Laila Gohar. The magic happens when the guests get stuck in

    Laila Gohar’s salt-baked arctic char
  • Monday, 9 January, 2023
    Food & Drink
    Why winter cabbage is the dish of kings

    Time to go super-green

    The author prepares chou farci
  • Friday, 30 September, 2022
    Food & Drink
    Nothing says freedom like a sidewalk party

    When it comes to hosting a feast, take it to the street

    Friends and family outside Laila Gohar’s studio
  • Sunday, 4 September, 2022
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar’s Puglian tomatina

    The tomato takes centre stage for a late summer feast

  • Friday, 5 August, 2022
    Food & Drink
    How to capture the taste of the sun

    Celebrate long evenings around the table with the summer’s finest produce

    The author in the kitchen planning the meal
  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Food & Drink
    How to host the perfect plastic-free picnic

    Glass bottles, linen napkins, freshly cut flowers – and sandwiches for everyone

    A selection of picnic sandwiches.
  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar shells out on a fava party

    What better way to celebrate the start of June than a feast of green beans?

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