dinner parties

Photo: Jennifer Indig The hardest part about hosting an Alison Roman-themed gathering to review her new cookbook Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over, was letting go of my own aspiration to always be the hostess with the…

Photo: Jennifer Indig The very first words of Alison Roman’s new cookbook, Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over, make it clear that she doesn’t want readers to get too hung up on the hosting part. “This is not a…