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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar conjures a couscous party to kick-start summer

    A seasonal celebration with a Moroccan flavour

    A lamb tagine with prunes, chickpeas, caramelised onions and couscous
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
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    Laila Gohar’s night at the Egyptian Museum

    The artist’s latest feast in Cairo is an homage to her country’s culinary and cultural history

    The author in front of her pomegranate seed fountain
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar hosts a bean party to set the pulse racing

    The artist indulges the subject of a lifelong obsession

    Four bowls of Laila Gohar’s 50-strong bean collection on a red and white-patterned tablecloth
  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Food & Drink
    Laila Gohar wraps up the food of love

    The chef and food stylist shares her ultimate comfort dish – Veggies in a Blanket

    The author’s veggies in a blanket arranged in their pot before cooking
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
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    Sally Clarke’s Kensington Thanksgiving

    The British pioneer of seasonal cooking throws an American feast for local friends

  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    HTSIHow to host it – a winter feasting special
    Fin and Lorcan Spiteri’s takeaway-fuelled Perudo party

    The restaurateurs behind Bruno’s and Caravel enjoy a rare night off with a Chinese and liar dice

    Lorcan (left) and Fin Spiteri outside on their floating cocktail bar and restaurant Bruno’s and Caravel on Regent’s Canal
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    HTSIHow to host it – a winter feasting special
    Yola Jimenez’s Michelin-starred sobremesa

    The founder of Yola Mezcal stages a relaxed party in Mexico City where everyone’s invited

    From left: furniture maker Alex Gutierrez, Yola Jimenez and designer Brian Thoreen in the garden at Jimenez’s home
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    HTSIHow to host it – a winter feasting special
    Phyllis Ny pays tribute to the African hall party

    The founder of supper club Asanka holds a home-cooked feast of west African flavours in south London

    Phyllis Ny at the back door of her friend Mimi Jarjue-Rickets’ house in south London
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    HTSIHow to host it – a winter feasting special
    Alice Moireau serves a colour-coded French country feast

    The model and food stylist hosts an intimate three-course lunch for friends at her home near Orléans

    From left: Alice Moireau’s guests, fashion sales executive Justine Simoes, architect Monica Klink, casting director Marlène Jacquet, Moireau, her partner Pierre Blondon, an osteopath, art director Lucie Coudurier, architect Hugo Suchet and film director Joaquim Bayle, at Moireau’s home near Orléans
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Food & Drink
    A fiery autumn feast for all the senses

    Red and orange stuffed vegetables to the fore

    Peppers from Eckerton Hill Farm at Union Square Greenmarket
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
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    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
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