Word: banquet
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...there's one sea creature they like to munch more than most: the humble herring. They like it fried, fermented, pickled and baked. And they especially enjoy it at Leif Mannerström's harbor-side restaurant Sjömagasinet. Every Christmas, the Michelin-starred chef dishes up a banquet of 16 types of herring and serves 10,000 people over 22 days. So if you want to join in the festive fish feast, make sure to book a table early. 5 Adolf Edelsvärdsgata; www.sjomagasinet.se...
...Stamatis, father of junior midfielder John Stamatis, in 1979. The list of semifinalists for the Hermann Trophy will be narrowed down to only three athletes on Dec. 14, and the winner of the award will be announced at the Missouri Athletic Club’s banquet at the beginning of January. —ALEXANDRA J. MIHALEK
...husband and I entered Osaka's Kitcho restaurant, we knew we were in for a one-of-a-kind meal: a master class in kaiseki, or formal banquet cuisine, and also in luxury, Japanese-style. Kaiseki is nothing like most Japanese food abroad. Sukiyaki, tempura, teppanyaki and even sushi are modern and often fusion inventions, many of them created to suit foreign tastes. A kaiseki banquet consists of multiple elaborate minicourses of rare seasonal ingredients, most unknown outside Japan. More than a meal, it's a multidisciplinary feast for the senses. Since it has roots in the Zen tea ceremony...
...admired our surroundings, the proprietress, or okami-san, came in to keep us company during the meal. For all her aristocratic bearing, Mrs. Hiroko Yuki turned out to be the soul of Kitcho's omotenashi hospitality. Her warmth instantly turned the cavernous banquet hall into an intimate and lively dinner party. We forgot to be self-conscious about having a stranger watch us eat, and soon we were chatting about everything from climbing Mount Fuji to collecting ceramics. We were eating from heirloom Baccarat crystal dishes in traditional Japanese shapes...
...hour rehearsal today and isn’t allowing anyone to pee. I think that’s how Copernicus died.[Note: Actually, Copernicus’s death was unrelated to urine, while fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave a banquet to relieve himself...