Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Bonnie Prince Charlie on the eve of Culloden -- 2. Sowing the seeds of the American Revolution -- 3. How Washington D.C. became America's capital -- 4. Forging a hundred years of peace at the Congress of Vienna -- 5. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's dinner in Sarajevo -- 6. How petroleum politics was born over a Scottish banquet -- 7. Austrian Anschluss -- 8. Churchill's birthday banquet in Tehran -- 9. Nixon in China -- 10. The Egypt-Israel peace treaty dinner -- Endnotes -- Plates
