Banquet

A banquet (/ˈbæŋk.wɪt/; French: [bɑ̃.kɛ]) is a large meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts. It usually serves a purpose such as a charitable gathering, a ceremony, or a celebration, and is often preceded or followed by speeches in honor of someone.

Historic context

Overall, there is an archaeological debate of when feasting began. Archaeologist Brian Hayden argues that feasts were an important event because the surplus of food that resulted into feasts turned into social and political ties and a competition in order to display one's own wealth. During these feasts, luxury foods were offered to their guest. What these luxury goods were are still up to debate. However, Hayden argues that animal meat and rice are some of these luxury goods because they were domesticated despite their difficulty in doing so. The term banquet, however, termed from a different time period.

The idea of banqueting is ancient (see Sellisternium, Belshazzar's Feast, and Mead halls). In the 16th century, a banquet was very different from our modern perception and stems from the medieval 'ceremony of the void'. After dinner, the guests would stand and drink sweet wine and spices while the table was cleared, or ‘voided’. (Later in the 17th century ‘void’ would be replaced with the French ‘dessert’.) During the 16th century, guests would no longer stand in the great chamber whilst the table was cleared and the room prepared for entertainment, but would retire to the parlour or banqueting room.

Banquet (album)

Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974. By this time there was no hard rock sound, it was now strictly progressive rock mixed with jazz fusion. The song "Our World Is a Rock 'n' Roll Band" was the opening track on some versions (i.e. the U.S. version) of the original LP release, but the only CD releases to date do not include this track, which can instead be found as a bonus track on the Repertoire Records CD release of their self-titled debut.

Track listing

U.S. Vinyl Release

Personnel

Band

  • John Lawton – lead vocals
  • Peter Hesslein – electric and acoustic guitars, 12-string guitar, percussion, backing vocals
  • Dieter Horns – bass, backing vocals
  • Herbert Bornhold – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Peter Hecht – piano, organ, Moog synthesizer, electric piano (Fender Rhodes)
  • Additional musicians

  • Herb Geller – alto saxsophone (track 1), flute (track 4)
  • Karl-Hermann Lüer – baritone saxophone
  • Stefan Dobrzynski – tenor saxophone
  • Banquet (disambiguation)

    A banquet is a large public meal or feast complete with main courses and desserts.

    Banquet or The Banquet may also refer to:

    Art, entertainment, and media

    Films

  • The Banquet (1991 film), a film made to benefit the Hong Kong flood relief charity
  • The Banquet (2006 film), a Chinese film by Feng Xiaogang
  • Music

  • Banquet (album), 1974 Lucifer's Friend album
  • Banquet (Bloc Party EP)
  • "Banquet" (song), a song from the EP and later from Silent Alarm
  • Other uses

  • Banquet 400, a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held at Kansas Speedway
  • Banquet Foods, a brand of frozen foods from ConAgra Foods
  • Operation Banquet, a plan to use every available aircraft in a last-ditch effort to repel a German invasion of Britain in 1940 or 1941.
  • See also

  • Banket (disambiguation)
  • Banquete, Texas
  • Banquette, a foot path along the inside of a rampart or parapet

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