Guests are now bringing olive oil, vinegar, and other gourmet pantry items to dinner parties, marking a shift from traditional wine gifts. These items are viewed as fashionable and tasteful, indicating a change in dining customs.
The days of impressing at a dinner party by arriving with an expensive wine are apparently fading fast – with guests now bringing olive oil s, vinegars and, er, tins of fish.
Beautifully decorated tins of gourmet tuna fillets, sardines and pilchards are among the products to give – and to show off. Demand for such items has soared by as much as 79 per cent this year after House & Garden magazine asked if 'trendy olive oil is the new wine' and reported: 'A chic store cupboard has become a status symbol.'
American TV chef Ina Garten has also weighed in, suggesting that taking wine to a dinner party could be seen as rude.'Like, I wouldn't bring cheese because they feel like they need to serve the cheese with the dinner.' Granola. The fashion seems to be that items once confined to the cupboards should be proudly displayed in the kitchen as an exhibition of one's taste
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