Like Mr. Shahzad, the catering executive, Mr. Khan, attended college in the United States.
At the Waldorf-Astoria, every ounce of caviar, box of raspberries and case of single malts entering the building is X-rayed, said a catering executive familiar with the hotel's high-security operations.
Most of the ventures are one- or two-person shops catering to executives at medium-sized firms.
Permanent toilets, catering facilities, executive boxes and so on also had to be built.
Soon after, the Pakistani authorities arrested Mr. Mughal, Mr. Hussain and others in their circle, including a catering company executive and a retired army major, who has since been released.
The bridegroom, 34, works at the New York Palace Hotel, where he is the executive director for catering and the executive assistant manager for food and beverages.
"It's a talent she just picked up on," said Mr. Colamussi, who is also the catering hall's executive chef.
Wente's executive catering chef Jeff Farlow told me that recipe for the mixed nuts accompanying the dinner served before the concert comprises "pecans, walnuts and almonds that have been roasted with a slurry of maple, cayenne and herbs like rosemary, lavender and sage," and that it appears in The Casual Vineyard Table by Carolyn Wente and Kimble Jones.
Frédéric Kieffer, formerly the executive chef at the Tentation catering company and the executive banquet chef at Windows on the World, seems as likely to reach for shaved bottarga as bonito flakes.
That process began last May, when Mr. Chiarello met with executives and catering chefs from Delta at a boxy industrial kitchen on the edge of the San Francisco airport to demonstrate some of his recipes.
It would be easy, and satisfying, to blame record executives for not catering to this audience, but maybe this isn't their fault.
