Maybe that's because the price of dinner foods are up almost 5 percent.
Finally, because years of dinners here prove that Pace is a pro, and one bad apple shouldn't mar the chef's bunch of successes.
The Scene Once, loggers worked in the rugged hills to the north; one area where the terrain abruptly steepens is called the Dinner Pot, because wives left pots of dinner there for their husbands' break from wood-cutting.
I eat some berries or some dried nori (which I get all over my face) in place of dinner, because a couple of hours before the performance, my stomach starts heaving and I feel like I'm going to throw up – even when I'm not that nervous.
I prefer it to the attention-hogging day after, largely because of the dinner my mother cooks at home in Dublin.
Because of a dinner party, one night the hostess forgot this chore, and all through the soup course there was a steady splashing and gurgling.
"My dad has lots of dinner parties because he's the boss," said a sixth grader named Mary.
At one house with a "beware of the dog" sign on the chain-link fence, she debated at length whether or not to enter the yard, while at others, homeowners slammed the door because they were in the middle of dinner.
His schedule in Florida late last week — marathon sessions of dinner, breakfast, lunch, dinner and lunch — underscores his ability to raise money efficiently because he is known to most donors.
It was, according to his staff, a wrenching process, although he was loath to admit it ("Look, I don't torture myself over decisions," he told me), not only because he felt that he was right, in policy terms, but because, according to the laws of dinner-table family argument, being right about being right is as important as being right.
At one dinner last year, two sisters who hadn't spent a Christmas together for seven years sat down side by side; another guest said that every year when the John Lewis ad was launched she felt really sad, but from now on, because of the Christmas Dinner, she wouldn't have to.
