The newly devised Captain's Lunch on the Bay ($65 per person including wine), on the first Saturday of the month from April to October, is another showcase for local produce.
Before The Clink, Crisci had already devised a monthly "gourmet lunch" programme in which prisoners he trained would provide special lunches for prospective employers.
Not only have cafeterias offered more salads and fruits, but the district is devising nutrition newsletters for parents, distributing alternative ideas for class parties to teachers and has lengthened the lunch period so students have more time to eat.
1948 Jean-Pierre Blumière is charged with the French colonial authorities in Indochina with devising a means of keeping French generals from being bitten by mosquitoes during their daily four-hour lunches.
Howard began devising publicity stunts.
Whereas magazine editors of yore could swan about the city in Town Cars and take long martini lunches, they must now devise ways for magazines to survive in a fraught climate.
Igor Stravinsky evidently devised a variation; his family submitted to lunch in silence so as not to impede his concentration, hence Drusilla Modjeska's title.
Here is how we did it: Every day for a year a group of us would meet after lunch and try every recipe ever devised for Jell-O.
The group met for lunch each Wednesday, but its larger purpose was to devise strategies to thwart legislation that was deemed fiscally (or otherwise) imprudent, even in a Republican-led Congress.
As a high school senior in Brooklyn in the 1990s, Joseph Sapienza, 33, devised a scheme with friends to sidestep what he said was an unsavory cafeteria lunch by ordering Chinese food to a certain side of the school building.
When I lunch at Barbie's place, in the fantastically kitsch restaurant with a menu devised by chef David Laris, it doesn't seem to be hugely popular.
