List of dining events

This is a list of historic and contemporary dining events, which includes

Banquets

• Banquet of Chestnuts – known more properly as the "Ballet of Chestnuts", refers to a fête in Rome, and particularly to a supper purportedly held in the Papal Palace by former Cardinal Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI on 30 October 1501.
• Banquet of the Five Kings – a 1363 meeting of the kings of England, Scotland, France, Denmark and Cyprus
• Julebord – a Scandinavian feast or banquet in the days before Christmas in December and partly November where there is served traditional Christmas food and alcoholic beverages, often in the form of a buffet. Many Julebords are characterized by large amounts of food and drink, both traditional and new, hot and cold dishes. There is often lively partying and the party can be an important social meeting place for colleagues.
• Nobel Banquet – an annual banquet held on December 10 in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall, after the Nobel Prize ceremony.^[1] At the banquet, for which a formal dress code exists, a multi-course dinner is served and entertainment provided.^[2]

Breakfasts

• North Melbourne Grand Final Breakfast – a breakfast function organised by the North Melbourne Football Club on the morning of the AFL Grand Final
• NRL Grand Final Breakfast – a breakfast function organised by the National Rugby League on the week of the NRL Grand Final
• Pancake breakfast – a public meal attached to many summer festivals and community events in the United States and Canada which involves volunteers cooking large quantities of pancakes and other hot breakfast foods for the general public.

Dinners

• Bracebridge Dinner – a seven-course formal gathering at the Ahwahnee Hotel^[3] presented as a feast given by a Renaissance-era lord. Started in 1927, the Ahwahnee's first year of operation, the dinner is inspired by the fictional Squire Bracebridge's Yule celebration in a story from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving.
• Christmas dinner – a meal traditionally eaten at Christmas, which can take place any time from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day itself
• Kūčios – the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in Lithuania, held on December 24
• Passover Seder – dinner during the Jewish celebration of Passover. Usually held with family and friends. During the dinner, the host reads the Haggadah, which tells the story of Jewish enslavement in Egypt and their liberation by God through Moses. The story is considered a central part of Jewish identity.
• Pennsylvania Society Dinner – the main event of The Pennsylvania Society's annual weekend retreat
• Progressive dinner – called a progressive dinner in the U.S. and a safari supper in the U.K., it is a dinner party with successive courses prepared and eaten at the residences of different hosts. Usually this involves the consumption of one course at each location. An alternative is to have each course at a different dining area within a single large establishment.
• Chinese Lunar New Year
  , during which family members get together to celebrate. It is often considered the most important get-together meal of the entire year.
• Réveillon – a long dinner held on the evenings preceding Christmas Day and New Year's Day. This occurs in various areas of the world.
• MTV Tr3s that let people in the Los Angeles area have the opportunity to cook dinner for their favorite Latino artist^[4]
• diplomatic conference
  . State lunches also occur.
  • List of U.S. State Dinners
  • State Dining Room of the White House
• foods native to the New World^{[citation needed]}, as according to tradition the Pilgrims received these food from the Native Americans.^[5]
• Tsar Alexander III), and Prince Otto von Bismarck
  .
• Enlightenment in Poland
• Trefa Banquet
• southeastern tribes.^[7] The meals focus on the spring appearance of wild onion, a food that was familiar to most of the tribes east of the Mississippi
  .

• Dinners
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  state dinner

  .
• 
  Foods at a Thanksgiving dinner
• 
  The chamber where the dignitaries would dine and meet with

  King Stanisław August Poniatowski at Thursday Dinners

• African American spokesman Booker T. Washington, to dine with him and his family, and provoked an outpouring of condemnation from southern politicians and press.^[8] This reaction affected subsequent White House practice, and no other African American was invited to dinner for almost thirty years.^[9]
• White House Correspondents' Dinner – first occurring in 1921,^[10] it has become a Washington, D.C. tradition and is traditionally attended by the president and vice president.^[11] Fifteen presidents have attended at least one White House Correspondents' Association dinner, beginning with Calvin Coolidge in 1924.^[11] The dinner is traditionally held on the evening of the last Saturday in April at the Washington Hilton.
• Muslim month of Ramadan. Discontinued in 2017^[12] and then reestablished at the White House in 2018.^[13]

• Bean-feast – was primarily an annual dinner given by an employer to his or her employees.^[14] By extension, colloquially, it describes any festive occasion with a meal and an outing.^[15]
• Boar's Head Feast – a festival of the Christmas season
• Commercium – a traditional academic feast known at universities in most Central and Northern European countries
• Feast at Hong Gate
• Turks, who had taken Constantinople
  the year before. The crusade never took place.
• Feast of the Seven Fishes – an Italian-American celebration of Christmas Eve with meals of fish and other seafood.^[16]
• Karamu – a feast that takes place on December 31, the sixth day of the Kwanzaa
  period
• Imperial China.^[17]
• Mesoamerican feasts – Feasts in Mesoamerica served as settings for social and political negotiations. Wealthy or royal families hosted feasts for the purpose of gaining loyalty and a strong image that would help them politically or socially in the future. People of every social status hosted feasts as a celebration of family and life.
• Oyster Feast – the centrepiece of the annual civic calendar in the ancient borough of Colchester located in Essex in the East of England.
• Supra – a traditional Georgian feast and an important part of Georgian social culture. There are two types of supra: a festive supra called a keipi and a sombre supra called a kelekhi, that is always held after burials.
• academic feast known at universities in most Middle and Eastern European countries. At a tableround, tables usually are placed in the form of a U or a W, the participants drink beer and sing commercium songs
  . A more formal form of the tableround is the commercium.

• Burns supper – a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, the author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January.^[18] However, in principle, they may be held at any other time of the year.
• Last Supper – the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.^[19]
• Pie supper – is a social gathering where pies are auctioned to raise money, often for a local school or fire department.
• resurrection appearances of Jesus after his crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb.^[20][21][22] Both the Meeting on the road to Emmaus and the subsequent Supper at Emmaus, depicting the meal that Jesus
  had with two disciples after the encounter on the road, have been popular subjects in art.
• Wigilia – the traditional Christmas Eve vigil supper in Poland, held on December 24

• Suppers
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  Depictions of the

  Leonardo da Vinci's late 1490s mural painting in Milan, Italy, being the best-known example.^[23]
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  A 1601 painting of the Supper at Emmaus, by Caravaggio
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  A traditional Wigilia Christmas Eve supper

See also

References