Of course, there's an element of stress – what to cook, how to cook it, shopping for large numbers, getting everything on the table – but it's not often you have an excuse to cook a banquet for the people who mean most to you.
A finalist in BBC2's Great British Menu, a TV series in which the country's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a banquet, Pern takes sourcing seriously and cooks with flair and precision, dishing up specialities like pan-fried wild Whitby sea bass and 36-hour Ampleforth cider-braised pork belly.
We cycled through extravagant landscapes, climbed Moon Hill, swam in the river and cooked a Chinese banquet at the Yangshuo cooking school, before emerging as if dipped in chocolate from a mud bath in the caves.
To celebrate, his mom cooked him a banquet of his favorite foods, from fried chicken and cornbread to chocolate cake.
To celebrate, his mom cooked him a banquet of favorite foods, from fried chicken and cornbread to chocolate cake.
But anyone who has mastered the art of opening a plastic bag can cook a $5.99 Banquet Crock-Pot Classic.
His name is Sat (Singh) Bains, and despite recent success on BBC2's The Great British Menu, in which chef cooked against chef for the right to cook at a banquet in Paris, he even answers his own phone.
I even cooked an entire Chinese banquet that included Lee Lum's lemon chicken… While working as a freelance magazine writer, the writer met Claiborne and was invited to his house.
The guests cooked the Chinese banquet, which included a suckling pig, roast chicken and red snapper.
