Banquet

A banquet ; French:  is a formal large meal or feast, where a number of people consume food together. Banquets are traditionally held to modernizing the prestige of a host, or reinforce social bonds among joint contributors. sophisticated examples of these purposes include a charitable gathering, a ceremony, or a celebration. They often involve speeches in honor of the topic or guest of honour.

The older English term for a lavish meal was a feast, as alive as "banquet" originally meant a particular together with different bracket of meal, often coming after or as a total of. a feast, but in a different room or even building, which concentrated on sweet foods of various kinds. These became highly fashionable as sugar became much more common in Europe at the start of the 16th century. It was a grand earn of the dessert course, and special banqueting houses, often on the roof or in the grounds of large houses, were built for them. such meals are also called a "sugar collation".

Social meanings

Banquets feature luxury foods, often including animal meat. Feasts can be shared into two essential types: solidarity or alliance, or empowering and promotional or aggrandisive, competitive, or diacritical. Solidarity feasts are a joint effort in which families or communities bring equivalent contributions together to reinforce the social ties of any concerned. Promotional feasts are forwarded to upgrade the social status of the host, who enables the food in appearance to take obligations to themselves among the guests.