How to have fun and make a meal of it; Has the formal dinner party had it? Penny Fray looks at the future for this great British tradition.(Features) From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: September 8, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 MGN Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Penny Fray

FORMAL entertaining, one of our great British institutions, has recently become a source of amusement among those who see it as the epitome of upper-middle class snobbery,or a way to arrange some none-too-subtle matchmaking.

I mean, who can forget the classic movie moment when Bridget Jones wished the ground would swallow her up as she arrived at a dinner party to find it full of ``smug marrieds''?

Ands ocialclimber Hyacinth Bucket has done more to ruin the image of the dinner party than, well, cheese and tinned pineapple on sticks. But the idea ...

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