Reason for celebration is not hard to find. By it we give meaning to certain day or event which is especially important to us. The best meals are made for feasts that are thrown during some important events. However, according to some unwritten rule, they are the best during weddings, because that is one of the joyous events all over the world.
Every skill and capability for preparing food, and their richness and diversity are show then. These are usually traditional meal of that region or the country where the host belongs, but more and more some other meals are being offered. Apart from WEEDING CUSTOMS the cause for celebration can be a holiday, birthdays or inaugurations of state officials or rulers. All of these are characterized by abundance of food and drink, military parades and music. Look at which 10 feasts in our history are best remembered.
10THE SIEGE OF PARIS (FRANCE, 1870/71)
Surrounded by Prussians, Parisian elites started eating zoo animals. On the menu: roast camel, sirloin of bear, haunch of wolf and elephant.
09AMERICA´S FIRST THANKSGIVING (ENGLISH COLONIES, 1621)
No historic record exists of the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians´ menu. It wouldn’t pies or cakes – the Pilgrims had run out of sugar.
08C.K.G. BILLINGS´S EQUESTRIAN CLUB DINNER (USA, 1903)
A ballroom dinner where 32 guests ate while sat their horses. Decorated troughs were presented to the horses so they could also chow down.
07THE LAST SUPPER (JERUSALEM, CIRCA AD33)
There is debate surrounding the claim that Jesus´s final meat was a Passover Seder. Save for the bread and wine, details of the meal are hardly known.
06FEAST OF THE PHEASANT (BURGUNDY, 1454)
Entertainment included a small boy singing a duet a deer. There also a giant pie containing 28 playing musicians.
05NICOLAS FOUQUET´S CHATEAU PARTY (FRANCE, 1661)
This banquet was so lavish that King Louise XIV had Fouquet imprisoned for life. Guests enjoyed massive edible monuments, a Moliere play and fireworks.
04THE REGENT´S BANQUET (UK, 1817)
The future George IV of the United Kingdom hosted a dinner that had 127 dishes. The highlight was a 4ft high Turkish mosque made out of marzipan.
03THE FEAST FOR THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR (PERSIA, 1672)
Guests were given basins of rice and meat – some containing entire lambs. Each dish weighed 80 lbs and guests needed help from servants to move them.
02THE MEDICI WEDDING (FLORENCE, 1600)
There were a 50 course of meal to celebrate the marriage of King Henry IV of France. Guests had songbirds hidden in their napkins, which flew out when unfolded.
01THE ENTHRONEMENT OF GEORGE NEVILLE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK (ENGLAND, 1465)
This three day meal consisted of 6 wild bulls, 12 porpoises and seals, 204 goats, 400 peacocks, 1000 herons, 2000 hot custards and 13000 kinds of sweet meats.
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