Friendship dinner / Ariel Okin -- Vietnamese Christmas Eve / Nam Dang-Mitchell -- Mardi Gras brunch / Julie Neill -- Backyard end-of-summer dinner / Shelly Johnstone Paschke -- Mother's Day brunch / Chesie Breen -- Easter entertaining traditions / Kimberly Schlegel Whitman -- Baby's Bastille Day birthday / Cathy Kinkaid -- Royal luncheon in Portugal / Diana de Cadaval -- Sunday suppers / Dara Caponigro -- Thanksgiving luncheon / Jan Showers -- Bohemian mix of old and new / Kim Hersov -- Weekend wedding celebration / Alessandra Branca -- Splendid family meal / Orlene Valy Paxson -- A maximal eclectic table / Allison Speer -- A first birthday / Anabelle Moehlmann -- Preserving food heritage / Ann Ittoop -- Christmastime buffet / Bettie Pardee -- Entertaining with color / Filipa de Abreu -- Birthdays in bed / Capucine de Wulf Gooding -- Fine & formal every day / Fruzsina Keehn -- Birthday in blue / Emily Hertz -- A festive Mexican Christmas / Christina Lynch -- Poolside garden luncheon / Gwen Langley -- Dinner inspired by travel / Jessica Nowitzki -- A birthday that feeds the soul / Jamie O'Banion -- Globally inspired table / Lisa Fine -- A passion for collecting / Marcia French -- An exotic dinner / Maura Kent -- Tables for every occasion / Megan Stokes -- Bringing the outside in / Penny Morrison -- An artistic table / Sharon Lee -- A mother-daughter luncheon / Stephanie Booth Shafran -- Festive lunch in the garden / Natalie Steen -- 100th birthday for Grandpa / Clary Bosbyshell Welsh

"Thirty style-setting women pay tribute to how their mothers and grandmothers have influenced their own styles of entertaining at home. Whether they proudly incorporate recipes passed down from a grandmother's collection or follow a mother's lessons for making guests feel comfortable, it is clear that family role models have had a strong influence. Blending inherited dinnerware or decorative pieces in their modern tables is also big in the way women embrace their heritage for entertaining. From formal to casual occasions, city to country, and grand to intimate, indoor and outdoor tables beautifully designed tell a story about how these women host guests at their tables. Each style maker shares tips and lessons in entertaining that she learned from the women in her life" --