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For hosts

Printable table cards

A tent card for the middle of the table, and sixteen questions to tuck under plates. Nobody has to announce a rule: the cards quietly change what the table talks about.

Prints on US Letter or A4. Cut along the dashed lines, and fold the tent card along the middle.

How to use them

  1. Stand the tent card in the middle of the table, where everyone can see it.

  2. Put one question card at each place, or pass the stack around after the first course.

  3. Go first yourself. People follow the host's lead on how long and how light an answer should be.

  4. If talk drifts back to the news, pick up the nearest card and read it out. No speech needed.

The tent card

Tonight's a kitchen table truce.

Politics can wait until the dishes are done.

Everyone at this table matters more than any argument.

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Tonight's a kitchen table truce.

Politics can wait until the dishes are done.

Everyone at this table matters more than any argument.

The question cards

  • What's a dish that tastes like home to you?

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  • What's the best meal you've ever had, and who were you with?

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  • Which family tradition would you never want to lose?

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  • Who taught you to cook something, and what was it?

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  • What's something you're looking forward to this year?

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  • What's a holiday memory that still makes you laugh?

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  • If you could share a meal with a relative you never got to meet, who would it be?

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  • What's the best advice anyone at this table ever gave you?

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  • What did a perfect Saturday look like when you were ten?

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  • What's a small thing that made your week better?

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  • What song takes you straight back to being a teenager?

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  • Where would you love to travel with someone at this table?

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  • What's something you've learned to do in the last few years?

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  • Which family story gets told every year, and who tells it best?

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  • What's something from this year you're quietly grateful for?

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  • Which recipe should this family never let disappear?

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