The course of history: ten meals that changed the world

Bonnie Prince Charlie on the eve of Culloden

Sowing the seeds of the American Revolution

How Washington, DC became America's Capital

Forging a hundred years of peace at the Congress of Vienna

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's dinner in Sarajevo

How petroleum politics was born over a Scottish banquet

Austrian Anschluss

Churchill's birthday banquet in Tehran

Nixon in China

The Egypt-Israel peace treaty dinner.