Whether you live in a small apartment or maintain a sprawling suburban kitchen, it is helpful to have creative yet time-tested ideas for welcoming family and friends in your home. Worried that a soup tureen is too fancy? Don't know earthenware from stoneware? And what's so special about a snifter, anyway? This practical step-by-step guide to entertaining features extra information on etiquette, place setting basics, centerpieces, essential glassware, and napkin folds.