This is a very long blog about entertaining. If you just replace the 'host' with 'innkeeper' I think you might be standing and cheering at some of the 'rules'. (Like the 'don't be early' one and the one on food restrictions.) There are 10 separate rules.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/entertaining/2013/09/03/rules_for_entertainin...
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