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Guest or host, you’re special. And invited to the four parties that follow. Now ready, set, go. Cookbook author Wilbert Jones throws an intimate dinner party for new-chef-in-town Marcus Samuelsson in his cozy LSD apartment. Jazz singers Bobbi Wilsyn, Spider Saloff, Tammy McCann and others belt it out in a living room designed for jazz and entertaining. Architects Claudia Skylar and James Mastro re-create stylish “Casablanca” for a holiday rendezvous. And how do food impresarios Meme and Gary Hopmayer (The Corner Bakery, Fox & Obel) entertain with friends like pastry guru Gale Gand, master baker Melina Kelson Podolsky and pastry chef Malika Ameen? Smart cookies that they are, they enlist them for a divine cookie swap.