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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T08:52:20.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Food writer Eleanor Steafel believes the best entertaining food isn’t the most complicated – it’s the sort people actually want to eat. In her new cookbook, ‘But First, Dinner’, the answer is a tray of cocktails, roast chicken with pepper sauce, a ‘goes-with-everything’ salad and a traybake pudding made for sharing",
  "title": "The perfect dinner party menu: cocktails, roast chicken and cake",
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