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The world's first cold-storage banquet was held in the Hotel Sherman, considered at the time to be Chicago's swankiest hotel.

Remembering the World’s First ‘Cold-Storage Banquet’

At the turn of the 20th century, the concept of a refrigerated feast was terrifying.

Diana Hubbell July 12, 2024

Eating with your hands is an essential part of the kamayan experience.

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Eat This Filipino Feast with Your Hands

The kamayan, also known as a boodle fight, has a long, curious history.

Diana Hubbell December 4, 2023

A painting depicting an Order of Good Cheer banquet procession.

Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of 'The Order of the Good Cheer'

North America's first culinary social club was born in the 17th-century Canadian frontier.

Laura Kiniry November 21, 2023

From pastry-built deer to rosewater balloon fights, May had many table-side tricks up his sleeve.

The Fantastical Feasts of England's First Celebrity Chef

Pastry warships, frogs hopping out of pies, and other spectacles devised by Robert May.

Amanda Herbert November 17, 2023

A late 16th-century map notes the territory of "Calos" near the southern tip of Florida, but the Calusa actually controlled most of the peninsula's southwest.

Long Before the First Thanksgiving, an Artificial Island in Florida Hosted a Cross-Cultural Feast

Decades before the Wampanoag and Pilgrims shared a meal, the powerful Calusa and their Spanish guests celebrated their new alliance. Spoiler alert: It didn't last.

Karuna Eberl November 15, 2023

Stockholm, Sweden

Stadshuskällaren

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

A reconstruction of the Iron Age roundhouse at Ulster, where archaeological evidence suggests massive feasts were held.

The Irish Pigged Out on Pork in a ‘Mammoth’ Iron Age Building

The guests brought swine from far and wide, and left dozens of carcasses behind.

Isaac Schultz December 27, 2019

The "Manchu-Han Imperial Banquet" brought peace to an empire, so the story goes.

The Greatest Banquet in Chinese History That Never Was

How grilled ape, braised bear paw, and steamed camel hump came to symbolize national unity.

Luke Fater November 13, 2019

Stonehenge: then and now, a major attraction.

Pig Remains Show How Far Prehistoric People Traveled to Visit Stonehenge

Epic Neolithic feasts drew crowds from opposite ends of Britain.

Matthew Taub March 13, 2019

Feast of the Seven Fishes

For Italian-Americans, Christmas Eve is all about the seafood.

Monkey Buffet Festival

The annual feast invites local macaques to dine on towers of fruit and vegetables among the ruins of a 13th-century temple.

Shojin Ryori

Japan's traditional temple cuisine features meals that are nutritionally and visually balanced.

Meat piled high and served on a trami.

Wazwan

This Kashmiri feast features 36 dishes and takes more than two hours to eat.

Addressing the haggis.

Burns Supper

Pay tribute to the poet Robert Burns with bagpipes, readings, and heaping helpings of haggis.

The Annual Crayfish Party at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia.

Kräftskiva

Don your party hat, sing, and chow down at these seasonal Swedish crayfish feasts.

Kamayan

These epic Filipino feasts feature lavish spreads and forego utensils.

Supra

This traditional Georgian feast is characterized by lots of food, lots of wine, and lots of rules.