• Hanjeongsik is a banquet of fish, meat, lettuce wraps, tofu soup and steamed egg, served with side dishes of kimchi (spicy pickled cabbage), acorn jelly, dried anchovies and boiled peanuts.

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  • We Lutherans were expected to act as some kind of ground peasant-burgers at the banquet table of life.

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  • Abraham van Beyeren, Pieter Claesz and Willem Heda, the masters of the masters, could paint with no sign of a brushstroke banquet tables displaying dozens of different surfaces and reflections of food, drink and tableware, vases overflowing with 30 varieties of realistic flowers from all seasons.

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  • She is also the star, along with her friends restaurateur Alice Waters and writer Ruth Reichl, of a new documentary called "Soul of Banquet" by Wayne Wang, which shows her preparing a meal.

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  • When it opened in 1986 it redefined the idea of a business hotel: Instead of banquet halls, glittering lobbies and big chandeliers that were a fixture in Indian five-star hotels, it presented understated elegance--and had an exclusive, by-invitation-only club for executives.

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  • He rattles off the quack's sales patter with buffo aplomb, whistles humorously through his teeth during his comic impersonation of an elderly senator at the wedding banquet, and his duel of wits with Ms. Netrebko at the end of Act II demonstrates the cavernous distance between their vocal styles.

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  • The many Americans who seemed entranced by the royal wedding may be delighted that their president will be staying in Buckingham Palace, will be the Queen's guest of honour at a state banquet, and will get a tour of Westminster Abbey.

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  • The awards will be presented at a Women of Vision banquet in California on 9 May.

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  • Ofelia, wandering through a tunnel, encounters the Pale Man sitting motionless at the head of a banquet table covered with food.

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  • Most prominent was the British paleontologist, biologist, and comparative anatomist Richard Owen, who coined the term dinosauria (Greek for "great lizards"), and in 1853 opened a Dinosaur Court in London's Crystal Palace, holding a banquet in the belly of an ersatz iguanodon.

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  • Companies now want executives who can secure deals with local businesses and governments without the aid of a translator, and who understand that sitting through a three-hour dinner banquet is often a key part of the negotiating process in Asia, experts say.

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  • Humbly accept a lifetime achievement award from Ned Johnson who, with tears in his eyes, honors us with a banquet dinner and a couple of Lamborghinis.

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  • Her message, whether to heads of state in banquet halls or to journalists at her sickbed, was that she was placed on earth to feed, nurse and comfort the poorest of the poor.

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  • Students listened to lectures, ate communal meals of lamb, chicken and rice, and worshipped in a makeshift prayer area -- a portion of a large banquet room with sheets spread on the carpet to mark a sanctified zone.

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  • In contrast, it is more like going to the restaurant and tasting different samples of the wonderful cuisine at every visit, then at retirement enjoying the banquet even more for having the samples ahead of time.

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  • Over the next three days there will be more - a White House garden party with hundreds of guests, a banquet with still more and even a 19 gun salute.

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  • In the evening, the president will be the guest of honor at a banquet where the king and queen and the Norwegian prime minister will be among 250 attendees, Owre said.

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  • Joe Tortorella of Robert Silman Associates, the engineer hired to remove the stacks from under the Rose Reading Room while it's still in use, has compared his task to cutting off the legs of a table while a banquet is taking place.

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  • After a street-side banquet, cap the day with a midnight tour of the riverside flower market and be struck anew by Bangkok's unexpected grace.

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  • Inside the Executive Court Banquet Facility at the Best Western in Manchester, hundreds of Paul supporters of all ages filled a large dance hall.

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  • At the end of the competition, contestants gathered in a hotel banquet hall for an awards ceremony.

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  • Saturday night's banquet not far from the White House attracted the usual assortment of stars from Hollywood and beyond.

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  • It will be followed by an evening banquet at Buckingham Palace hosted by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall.

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  • They meet up at night, usually at a Holiday Inn, for a banquet dinner hosted by Deere, which stuffs the scouts and 100 of Deere's best local customers with meat, gravy and potatoes (and corn).

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  • And the other amusing thing is that one of the Sumerian epics describes a Sumerian god making a banquet for another god, and the steps are all mapped out for how the beer is made, which means that the oldest written recipe in the world is for beer.

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  • Unlike the feeding frenzy of 1996, the FCC's December sale could end up being the banquet nobody attends.

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  • In 1995, Chan hosted a banquet for Corliss and another writer visiting Hong Kong and then took them to the set of the race-car epic Thunderbolt.

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  • Sixty awardees from our 200 Best Under a Billion selections of small and medium-size enterprises in Asia-Pacific were represented Nov. 10 at a banquet at Singapore's Sentosa Golf Club.

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  • There are a number of events in and around Anchorage leading up to the Iditarod start, such as the Mushers' Banquet, various Iditarod educational seminars featuring mushers and race officials, and even a competing annual festival and parade in Anchorage, the Fur Rondy.

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  • With five children, 15 grandchildren (one a nursing student at Marian, despite having four children of her own) and 26 great-grandchildren assembling for the big event, Zedan was preparing a banquet.

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