TOKYO, MARCH 30 -- Fearing banishment to the minors, Benny Agbayani shares copious meal of rice and Polynesian food with his sumo wrestler idol, Konishiki, who tells him to relax and do his best.
A few favorite African heads of state are always invited to G-8 summit meetings, and I've often been let into the club for a lively chat, a copious meal of promises and ambitious pledges, and a hearty round of preaching.
"Our farts were so smelly after the copious meal, we nearly suffocated," he told the Telegraph.
The title is taken from the Lunar Society, a discussion club that met monthly in Birmingham around the time of the full moon (thus ensuring light to get home by, after copious drink, meals and above all talk).
The menu is divided into categories: specialties like game hen done sweet-and-sour and stuffed with lemon grass; dishes to share, including some from Issan, in northeastern Thailand, like spicy minced catfish salad; and copious one-dish meals involving noodles, including the Vietnamese cha ca la vong.
Spanish social life is an endless round of weddings, baptisms, first communions, pub crawls with friends and late dinners with lively conversation into the small hours over the ruins of a copious, well irrigated, meal.
Harris, whose previous novels include "Pompeii" and the World War II thriller "Enigma," doesn't take the path of many other writers of historical fiction and provide copious, painstaking descriptions of meals, wardrobes, palaces and the like to summon a long-ago, far-away past.
According to a study published Wednesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the bonnethead shark pairs its meaty meals with copious amounts of seagrass.
There they were met by refugee families, with whom they lived for five days, sleeping in their stucco-and-tented homes and sharing their simple couscous meals and copious glasses of sweet tea.
It's also possible to get a good four-course meal and copious wine for £30 a head.
Some regions expect lively, copious banter during the meal while others demand restraint.
