Of course, while this is great in theory, it can also be (if you’ll excuse the pun) a recipe for disaster: you don’t want to host a potluck dinner and find yourself staring down the barrels of 11 only very slightly different carbonaras. What a potluck dinner involves is every guest bringing one dish to the dinner, meaning that everyone contributes to the meal while attempting to make their dish the most desirable and most sought-after. The potluck dinner is a new food concept which is most popular in the USA, however it is now spreading to Europe.