So when placed on a plate, as it will be at the Brain banquet, "food" isn't necessarily the first thing that comes to mind – especially here in Britain.
"It is," he concludes, "in this clandestine worldwide minority... that today resides,... unknown to the majority of the French, the life and future of their irreplaceable idiom, qualified as a literary language and the language of 'good company.'" For those looking to join this latter-day "banquet of enlightened minds," "When the World Spoke French" is an excellent place to start.
Banal from the outside, the grey-brown walls of the Côte d'Or offer the uninformed traveller no clue as to the stupendous banquets within, never mind the existence of a top-of-the-range Relais & Châteaux hotel replete with sauna, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a garden fastidiously manicured, as the brochure proudly informs us, ' àl'Anglaise'.
for the cavity-causing "hearts and minds" speech he delivered at every banquet stop.
Food was dispatched from the kitchen laid out on trays and waiters continued bringing out trays until diners could literally eat no more (In his New Yorker article, Joseph Mitchell quotes one man as saying, "I'm so full I'm about to pop. Push those kidneys a little nearer, if you don't mind").. Beer flowed freely during banquets in pre-prohibition years.
It gives the dish, to my fanciful mind, the perfumed whiff of a lavish Mughal banquet.
Gone were the slabs of roast beef or banquet chicken that used to come to mind at the thought of club food.
One might have thought that, given the awful news from the oracle, and given his uncertainty about the identity of his father (Oedipus is called a bastard by a drunk at a banquet in Corinth, which is what first infects his mind with doubt), he might have exercised caution before deciding to kill an older man.
Buell mentioned she had taken the abortion pill and changed her mind, and the woman asked if she would speak at a banquet.
Bear in mind the presentation was a very important aspect of a successful banquet.
