--- title: Mindy Kaling Has Nora Ephron-Themed Holiday Dinner Party description: New mom and noted rom-com enthusiast Mindy Kaling had a Nora Ephron-themed holiday dinner party featuring Pie a la Sally and more. canonical: https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-22T17:52:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:26.309Z og:title: Mindy Kaling's Friends Threw Her the Best Post-Baby Party og:description: It was rom-com themed og:url: https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5727cb5710f42bda/6988f660096a9411876a0ea4/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Hulu's "The Mindy Project" Final Season Premiere Party - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mindy Kaling's Friends Threw Her the Best Post-Baby Party twitter:description: It was rom-com themed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5727cb5710f42bda/6988f660096a9411876a0ea4/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mindy Kaling's Friends Threw Her the Best Post-Baby Party > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 22, 2017 5:52 PM UTC [_The Mindy Project_](http://time.com/5022963/mindy-project-kaling-season-six-last-final/) creator and star [Mindy Kaling](http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/mindy-kaling/) is a noted fan of romantic comedies, so it should come as no surprise that she’s celebrating the holidays with a [Nora Ephron](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/27/nora-ephron-remembering-everything/)\-themed dinner party. Kaling — who gave birth to her first child last Friday, a daughter named Katherine — usually hosts a holiday dinner party for the young women she works with. But since she had a “busy week,” her staffers brought the dinner to her and used the occasion to pay homage to one of Kaling’s favorite creators and the veritable queen of the rom-com, Nora Ephron, with a “Yule Got Mail Holiday Dinner” — an especially apropos pick since _You’ve Got Mail_ made [Kaling’s list of her all-time favorite romantic comedies](http://time.com/4170877/these-are-mindy-kalings-favorite-rom-coms/). The menu paid homage to two of Ephron’s most beloved films — _When Harry Met Sally_ and, of course, _You’ve Got Mail_ —with courses like “Shopgirl’s Pasta Pomodoro” and “Pie a la Sally.” In the words of Katz’s most famous customer, we’ll have what she’s having. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/"},"headline":"Mindy Kaling's Friends Threw Her the Best Post-Baby Party","datePublished":"2017-12-22T17:52:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:26.309Z","description":"I'll have what she's having","url":"https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Mindy Kaling","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5727cb5710f42bda/6988f660096a9411876a0ea4/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5727cb5710f42bda/6988f660096a9411876a0ea4/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hulu's \"The Mindy Project\" Final Season Premiere Party - Arrivals","caption":"Hulu's \"The Mindy Project\" Final Season Premiere Party - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5077599/mindy-kaling-nora-ephron-dinner-party/","name":"Mindy Kaling's Friends Threw Her the Best Post-Baby Party"}}]}] ```