List of dining events

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Foods at a Scandinavian Julebord banquet

This is a list of historic and contemporary dining events, which includes banquets, feasts, dinners and dinner parties. Such gatherings involving dining sometimes consist of elaborate affairs with full course dinners and various beverages, while others are simpler in nature.

Contents

Individual events

Banquets

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Attendees at the 1958 Nobel Banquet

Breakfasts

Dinners

A Christmas dinner in Macedonia. Some Christmas dinners such as this one occur on Christmas Eve. Badnikva vecera.jpg
A Christmas dinner in Macedonia. Some Christmas dinners such as this one occur on Christmas Eve.
Under the direction of White House Executive Chef Henry Haller, chefs prepare food for a state dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in 1981. White House chefs 1981.jpg
Under the direction of White House Executive Chef Henry Haller, chefs prepare food for a state dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser in 1981.

The White House

President Barack Obama hosting the White House Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the East Room of the White House in 2015 Obama hosts Iftar dinner on Ramadan.jpg
President Barack Obama hosting the White House Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan in the East Room of the White House in 2015

Feasts

A simulation of the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, located at the Tao Heung Foods of Mankind Museum Manchu Han Imperial Feast Tao Heung Museum of Food Culture.jpg
A simulation of the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, located at the Tao Heung Foods of Mankind Museum

Suppers

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Haggis at a Burns supper
A traditional Wigilia Christmas Eve supper Wigilia potrawy 554.jpg
A traditional Wigilia Christmas Eve supper

See also

References

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  2. Lusane, Clarence (23 January 2013). The Black History of the White House . City Lights Publishers. p. 256. ISBN   9780872866119. LCCN   2010036925. Although the controversy eventually died down, its impact shaped White House politics for decades. No black person would be invited to dinner at the White House again for nearly thirty years
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  6. Luke 24
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  12. "Rock Dinner". TV.com. July 15, 2013. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
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  20. From Merriam Webster Unabridged Dictionary
  21. Clark, Melissa (16 December 2013). "Surf's Up on Christmas Eve. Feasting on Fish to the Seventh Degree". New York Times . Retrieved 2013-12-30. It's a Southern Italian (and now Italian-American) custom in which a grand meal of at least seven different kinds of seafood is served before midnight Mass The fish part comes from the Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Christmas Eve, while the number may refer to the seven sacraments.
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