How to Throw a Holiday Party that Even A-Listers Don’t Want to Miss

Some holiday parties can be as stiff as eggnog peaks, but then there’s Jacqueline Greaves and Antonio Monda’s twist on yuletide tradition. Held in the couple’s Upper West Side apartment, the get-togethers are packed with Manhattan’s cultural elite and more Jamaican- and ­Italian-­inflected food than those guests know what to do with. Fifteen years after the Mondas hosted their first holiday blowout, the event remains something of an underground phenomenon—a charming bit of alchemy, given that the fete overlooks Central Park. Jacquie, a food writer, and Antonio, a writer, professor of film at New York University, and artistic director of… Read Full Article