Word: meal
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...steak tartare, rabbit wrapped in Parma ham with tea-soaked prunes, and loin of roe deer with an earthy black pudding. But be sure to save room for the desserts - from the chocolate torte to the bramble, sherry and mascarpone trifle, they make a wickedly decadent end to the meal...
...lifetime inspirational dinner." On April 5, Bangkok's five-star Lebua hotel will treat 50 favored guests to a repast prepared by a glittering array of Michelin-starred chefs. To thank the guests for their loyalty to the hotel, Lebua plans to spend $300,000 for the meal. Accustomed though they may be to showy p.r. stunts, social activists are nonetheless up in arms over this particular act of epic extravagance. The reason? The banquet comes with a pre-dinner commitment to what the Lebua's p.r. mavens have dubbed "emotional tourism." Hours before digging into truffles and foie gras...
...Prime Minister's diarrhea on the front page. Hospitalized for food poisoning, Samak had to pull out of several cabinet meetings. The Prime Minister's fate, though, may be the retribution wished by many social activists, stung by the notion of $300,000 being spent on a single meal, on those who partake in the Lebua's "once-in-a-lifetime inspirational dinner...
...another case of insensitivity toward undergraduate concerns, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) shut down all the dining halls over spring break—leaving the many students who remained on campus over the vacation period without a viable meal plan. It didn’t have to be this way. While the fiscal and labor-related constraints of HUDS certainly are of concern, the health and well-being of the numerous students on campus should not have gone so neglected. After all the house dining halls closed on Friday, March 21, a $35 billion institution became home to possibly hundreds...
Over a St. Patrick’s Day meal of corned beef and Guinness, the online political editor of the Associate Press gave a prepared statement on broad political themes, but then faced a barrage of questions about the nomination contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...