Still Panicking: How to Host a Dinner Party with Monica Heisey

About this episode

The episode features Monica Heisey sharing her insights on hosting a dinner party, alongside hosts Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates discussing mealtime tips.

Still Panicking: From dining out to eating in, food with friends or dinner alone, this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top mealtime tips. Author of the Sunday Times bestseller, and frankly brilliant book, 'Really Good Actually', Monica Heisey joins Stevie and Tessa to talk them through her passion for hosting a really good dinner party. Longtime listeners will know we've tackled this one before, but the tips were mostly about lemons. Monica brings some absolutely banging advice. Also she's so nice. And the book is fantastic, buy it at once. Find Monica on Instagram @monicaheisey Buy Monica's book 'Really Good Actually' here . This episode was first released on 28 March 2023. Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive. Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/nobodypanic . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Stevie Martin, Tessa Coates

Guest: Monica Heisey

Topics covered

• dinner party
• hosting
• mealtime tips
• food
• friendship

Keywords

• dinner party
• hosting tips
• Monica Heisey
• Really Good Actually
• food with friends

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sunday Times, Plosive

Books & works: Really Good Actually

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