Another challenge to hosting dinner parites today is that everybody is on a special diet, count calories, on ozempic because they need to be healthier or have a athletic goal only few people 30 years ago had.

This makes it even more difficult to host because of everybody's needs and regimes they dont buckle on.

This is really true, people used to have to figure what was a dietary preference vs a dietary requirement.

I was just planning a dinner party a while ago and the Venn diagram of what foods I could make was truly vexing.

I will move heaven and earth and scrub pots and pans for someone with Celiac, but working around people’s mere preferences is irritating.

prior generations would just eat around it or suck it up.

I'm not sure how big a deal that really is in a broad sense.

My friend circle in our old city included both Falstaffian omnivores and vegans, and we entertained often. It's not hard to ensure there's food available for folks on a more restrictive diet, and even my friends with UCI racing licenses generally ate like normal people at social events.

Mileage varies, obviously.

(I will say, however, that after having made a vegan "bolognese" once, I have no need to do so again. It was much more effort than the already time-consuming genuine article.)