But at a preliminary hearing for the case this month, the charges against Brown were dropped, leaving animal welfare advocates exasperated with a law that has done nothing to stop California horses from ending up on foreign dinner plates.
To the Americans, the whole experience was impossibly alien: eating with chopsticks, the foreign dinner etiquette, the food cut up into small pieces, the mysterious ingredients, the multitude of courses, etc., etc.
I'd love to make it for my foreign dinner group.
"This is a complete sea change in what Pakistan is used to," said Mr. Rashid, who was invited to Washington just before the inauguration to attend a small foreign policy dinner with Mr. Obama.
The foreign ministers' dinner called by the EU Council's president, Donald Tusk, will exchange notes on how far they believe Trump will follow through on his dramatic, but sometimes inconsistent, pledges to turn US foreign policy upside down, including over Russia, Syria, Iran and Nato.
There are trips to foreign lands, dinners with kings and celebrities, swarming paparazzi and blaring motorcades, all with the potential to transform sweet little children into bossy, self-important ones.
To the Foreigns, eating dinner is a profoundly social experience, while in Britain we all go straight from work to pub and don't leave until we're drunk enough to enjoy the ready meal we will inevitably buy from a supermarket in a train station.
Not since Secretary of State Colin Powell's "surrender on Iran at the September 2004 foreign minister's dinner in New York had I been so depressed".
Invited, with a handful of other foreign correspondents, to dinner with Brazil's president, I arrived at the Alvorada Palace to meet the elected leader of 200 million people and the world's sixth biggest economy, not really knowing what kind of person to expect.
State legislators accepted more than $892,000 in gifts last year, including foreign trips, expensive dinners, concert and sports tickets, golf games, spa treatments, Disneyland admissions and bottles of tequila and wine, according to filings released Wednesday.
His comments came during a wide-ranging discussion over a four-hour dinner with foreign journalists here.
