![]() ![]() If you - along with the 140,000 others - follow Jackson on Instagram you’ll probably have seen the pictures and know that no one can fold a gingham napkin or turn a tangerine into a centrepiece quite like her. ![]() ![]() ‘But the food doesn’t matter I just love having friends over.’ I’ll have to put on a few big bowls of potatoes",’ Jackson says in her Yorkshire accent. ‘Dinners always start with 10 guests, then I think, "The more, the better!" Soon I’m like, "Oh God, there’s not enough food. The 34-year-old hosts the meal every - non pandemic - November in the Sanderson floral wallpapered front room of her Victorian town house. Welcome to Laura Jackson’s ‘ Friendsgiving’ dinner. Behind a hubbub of laughter and cheers-ing of tequila shots, the Dirty Dancing soundtrack roars. Charity shop-bought plates are scraped clean of roast lamb, hasselback potatoes and salsa verde. Artichokes wrapped in monogrammed velvet ribbons sit as place settings, speckled brown glasses overflow with orange wine, quartered pomegranates hold court as centrepieces with thin pastel candles flickering as the room’s only source of light. Twenty-five friends are pitched up at a giant, white linen tablescape. It has since been updated as lockdown restrictions ease. *This article was written before the Coronavirus pandemic and social distancing restrictions came into force. ![]()
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