Given huge portions of bread and potatoes, both legs of the chicken, puddings made of jam and suet served with lashings of custard and double cream, and then, if our mothers still weren't satisfied with how much we'd eaten, both breasts of a second chicken.
BEST DISHES Spinach salad, Caesar salad, clam chowder, oysters, fish and chips, roast chicken, rice pudding, coconut-lemon cake.
It was my nan who made me the most suitable food for my tummy, and the greatest – corned beef hash or roast chicken, Yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes and a bit of gravy.
After that, they'll sample pickled green plums; a kale soup hailing from the Black Sea region; fried filets of sea bass; a durum, or wrap sandwich, of spicy grilled meat; a mouthwatering array of baklava; stewed quince; still more Turkish coffee and tavuk gogsu, or chicken-breast pudding.
RECOMMENDED DISHES -- Buffalo wings, spinach and artichoke dip, seafood martini, crab cake, sesame-seared tuna, goat cheese salad, pork chop, marinated rib eye, filet mignon, mahi mahi, shrimp stir fry, sun-dried chicken, hamburger, rice pudding, chocolate bread pudding.
That means roast beef or roast chicken and Yorkshire pudding.
RECOMMENDED DISHES: Oysters Rockefeller, scallops wrapped in bacon, pan-roasted halibut, rosemary roasted chicken, apple bread pudding.
RECOMMENDED DISHES Steamers, crab cake, New England clam chowder, clams on the half shell, sushi, shrimp cocktail, octopus salad, hearts of romaine, grilled tuna, whole sea bass, salmon, fried shrimp, chicken breast, bread pudding, chocolate cake, ice cream sandwich.
Representative Nancy Pelosi, mindful that some guests had paid $10,000 for a plate of chicken and bread pudding, shot a frown — the sort a grandmother gives when someone arrives at Christmas dinner in a wrinkled shirt — and in a split second, the whispers ceased.
