Delish‘s Dinner With Friends quarterly hits newsstands on 1 September, packed with more than 70 dinner recipes organised by protein type and anchored by an exclusive look at the friendship between cover stars Jennifer Garner and Ina Garten.
The issue is the publication’s fall quarterly edition, designed around the premise that cooking for a group demands more than a good recipe. It features contributions from Eva Longoria and Priyanka Chopra alongside the Delish Test Kitchen’s own greatest hits, giving the collection a broad range of approaches to feeding a crowd.
Garner and Garten Take Centre Stage in the Dinner With Friends Quarterly
The cover profile brings together Garner and Garten for a conversation about their friendship, shared traditions, and the ways each has shaped the other’s relationship with food. Garten contributes five of her own recipes to the issue, among them her Honey White Bread, described as a favourite of Garner’s children, and Rack of Lamb, one of Garten’s go-to dishes when cooking for guests.
Garner’s connection to food runs deeper than the cover shoot. According to Delish, she plays food blogger Hollis Shaw in Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend, a role that brings her relationship with cooking into both her professional and personal life. That context gives the Garner-Garten profile a texture it might otherwise lack: this is not simply a celebrity endorsement bolted onto a recipe collection, but a conversation between two people with genuine investment in the subject.
The issue also contains what the Delish team describes as the secrets behind making memories in the kitchen, though the emphasis throughout is practical as much as it is atmospheric. The dual focus on inspiration and utility has shaped the way the entire edition is structured.
Organised by Protein, Built for Easy Meal Planning
One of the more considered editorial decisions in this Dinner With Friends quarterly is its organisation. Rather than grouping recipes by course or occasion, the issue is divided by protein type: chicken, beef, pork, seafood, and vegetables each get their own section. The idea is to shorten the gap between knowing what is in the fridge and knowing what to cook.
That kind of structure suits an audience that is less interested in browsing and more interested in answering the immediate question of what to put on the table for several people at once. Big, shareable formats sit at the heart of the recipe selection, from slow braises through to pasta dishes and casseroles built to feed a table rather than a household of two.
The issue hits newsstands on 1 September and will be available at grocery stores, Target, and Amazon, among other retailers. Readers who would prefer not to wait for the physical edition can access it through a Delish membership, which also includes unlimited access to more than 10,000 online recipes, content from the Test Kitchen, the Delish App’s enhanced cooking tools, and a members-only dinner newsletter.
For anyone who has been planning an autumn dinner party or simply trying to build a more reliable rotation of crowd-friendly meals, the combination of Garten’s recipes and that protein-led structure gives the Dinner With Friends quarterly a clear practical use beyond its cover appeal.