HAVING PEOPLE OVER

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Become the perfect host and learn how to foster community as an adult with this modern guide to hosting every type of gathering.

In this accessible, inviting book on hosting and entertaining, author, CEO, and internet big sister Chelsea Fagan guides readers on creating moments worth staying in for. From designing the right space (lighting should make everyone look sexy!), to crafting a menu that won't keep you in the kitchen all night (braising is your friend!), and revitalizing the lost art of cultivating grown-up communities (why are we in forty different group chats?), this book will make you the perfect host at every budget.

Curating a space optimized for entertaining, so people can drop by without it sending you into a tailspin.
A brief history of the cocktail hourand its imagined futureincluding recipes with and without spirits.
The 101 tutorial for all things dinner parties: inviting guests, setting the table, planning a menu, creating a mood board, and actually enjoying the evening yourself.
Facilitating a (platonic) adult sleepoverand why you definitely should!
How to be good guest wherever you go, from when to show up, to what to bring, to what absolutely not to do.

With chic, stylized photography and charming, illustrative line drawings throughoutproviding everything from sample tablescapes to charcuterie board mapsand plenty of actual recipes for your next gathering, Having People Over will transform your relationship to entertaining, one apéritif at a time.

Chelsea Fagan is the CEO and co-founder of The Financial Diet, an author a social media creator, and a home cook. She has published three books, I'm Only Here for the Wifi, The Financial Diet, and A Perfect Vintage.