Why The Dinner Party is A Culinary Utopia

We often think of Utopia as a destination in the future—a gleaming city on a hill, a society of post-scarcity, or a world without conflict. But if you look closely at our collective yearning for a perfect world, you’ll find it isn't looking forward at all. Instead, it is looking backward through a distorted lens.

Utopia is not a blueprint for what’s next; it is a haunted house built from the bricks of a past that never actually happened.