Culture

Second-Generation Hosting: New Tables, Old Logic

How diaspora millennials adapt thali pacing, potluck rules, and festival guest lists.

  • diaspora
  • hosting
  • millennial

Hosting looks different when your dining table seats six, not sixteen. Second-generation cooks often hybridize — store-bought mithai, homemade dal, one ambitious dish for credibility. The logic of generosity remains.