comScore
ADVERTISEMENT

Holiday Dinner Etiquette Tips That Would Make Ina Garten Proud

If you like big meals with family and friends, gobbling up goodies, then feeling really sleepy after, then holiday dinners really are the best. Getting together with loved ones, sharing memories and reasons for being with one another is lovely but the food — oh, all the food — also helps.

Despite the best intentions, though, family get-togethers don’t always go off without a hitch. But if you want to keep it as easy-breezy as possible, here are some tips that would inspire even the ultimate hostess herself, Ina Garten. She’s built a career around food, from making it to entertaining around it, but does it such an easy, relatable way. So whether you’re attending a fun dinner party or hosting one of your own, here is some formal dinner etiquette advice we’d like to pass along to you. Because sometimes the most basic table manners are the most important.