Holidays mean more entertaining and invites to parties and dinners. Whether it’s pizza or pot roast, doesn’t your gracious host/hostess deserve a special something beyond a hug and a thank you? Casserole? So old-school, but still delicious. Wine? Expected, but still appreciated. Just remember to show up with something. But what? Lifestyle expert/author/Today Show contributor Elizabeth Heiskell poses that age-old question but also provides some ideas in her “What Can I Bring? Southern Food for Any Occasion Life Serves Up’’ (Oxmoor House, $25). While it applies to most to potluck dinner invitations, her suggestions work well as hostess gifts, too, because tasty tidbits always are appreciated. “You can not tell me you haven’t asked this question, one time in your life, hopefully more, and if you haven’t, your mama didn’t raise you right,’’ said the Rosedale, Ms., native Heiskell with a chuckle.
