At a fancy political dinner, he'll schmooze with the big shots, but he's unlikely to leave before he can greet all the banquet servers or hotel cleaning staff.
What child doesn't like a party, and in our house growing up, the seder, the festive dinner which marks the first two nights, was celebrated as the mother of all banquets.
While in 2009, jelly-makers Bompas and Parr held an all-black banquet using, among other things, black truffles, blackberries and caviar.
In a recent story about Saban in GQ magazine, a friend said Saban lamented how all the banquets and interviews after last season's national championship game would cut into his recruiting time.
And with those words he sets up the tension in the film between traditional women's or "grandmother's" cooking and the elaborate haute cuisine of the palace's all-male banquet kitchen.
At the all-vegan banquet, Tracey announced that she, Jon, and their two children had bought a farm in New Jersey, and intend to use it as a rescue center and an educational center.
To quote Rachel Held Evans again, "The Church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited.
Quanjude's all-duck banquets have served various big shots over the years, such as former U.S. President George Bush, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
But even the herons and egrets have abandoned North Brother, which can happen if predators like great horned owls take up residence "and think it's a banquet all around them," explained Glenn Phillips, the executive director of the New York City Audubon Society.
