Millennial Thinks Hosting Is Now a ‘Lost Art Form,’ and Internet Agrees [Video]

A woman has been backed for venting about younger generations being bad hosts, and she told Newsweek it feels “wrong not to offer your guests something when they’re in your home.”

Olivia Mancuso lives in Chicago and was raised in what she called a “hosting home,” with her Sicilian father and her mother always going above and beyond for visitors. “Whether it was a planned dinner or a quick chat over coffee, my parents always put out a full spread for our guests,” Mancuso said, adding; “I carried those values with me into young adulthood.”

Now 32, Mancuso sparked a major conversation on TikTok after she shared a vent to her account @oliviamancuso__ lamenting what she called the “lost art form” of hosting.

She began by clarifying she is a millennial, and said she feels like “even people in my generation have lost the art of hosting,” recalling the many times she has been to someone’s house where it took up to 20 …