Chief in the salivation stakes is the eagerly anticipated Dinner, the first foray outside Bray, Berkshire, for idiosyncratic masterchef Blumenthal.
Troubling news arrived at 4 15 p.m., when Mrs. Kennedy got word about the eagerly anticipated dinner party scheduled to take place at Bill Clinton's office in Harlem, with its splendid view of Central Park.
In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, D.C. since Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner.
Scarpia enjoys his dinner, anticipating the pleasure of seeing Angelotti and Cavaradossi hanged.
Behind the glass walls, pocked with nearly a dozen bullet holes, tables were neatly set with salt and paper shakers, wine glasses, and mustard jars, as if anticipating the evening dinner service.
Anticipating that this dinner was going to jump the shark, I had assigned myself the porchetta — roast pig — which I craftily planned to buy at one of those mobile butcher vans that are scattered at daily markets across Umbria.
Despite his globetrotting, he'd never imagined himself spending close to four years on the road, zipping in and out of celebrated restaurants for his highly anticipated popup dinners.
Tom Kitten, meanwhile, is turned into a sausage roll, wrapped up in pastry by two triumphant-looking rats who are anticipating a particularly splendid dinner.
Anticipating a large bouillabaisse dinner, two friends and I shared four appetizers and one main course for lunch, dividing them into an impromptu tasting menu.
So while most people are just finishing dinner and anticipating an evening out, the ushers are already gathering to receive their assignments for the evening.
