A few blocks away, at the Crimson Sparrow, the patio was full of people eating precisely arranged plates of pork belly braised in mustard and honey, rectangles of French-toast bread pudding and small rounds of fried green tomatoes.
I met her at a dinner to celebrate the publication of Aiding and Abetting, held in a private dining room at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair, Lucan's old stamping ground; we ate smoked salmon and lamb chops in homage to the unimaginative earl, who, it is rumoured, ate precisely this same meal for lunch every day, as ruin raged about him.
Two individuals eating precisely the same food may metabolize it quite differently; in this emerging scientific model, it is cultures of eating, from breastfeeding habits to dietary fat content that are seen to shape the capacities and reactions of metabolisms in individuals and generations.
He and Valerie ate out precisely once a year: on their wedding anniversary.
The irony is that eating whales – precisely because of their place high in the marine food chain – is injurious to human health.
Sharks' skeletons are made of cartilage, which degrades easily, so questions like what the Megalodon ate, what, precisely, it looked like, and why it went extinct are difficult to answer.
Each organ — including the organs related to eating — has a circadian clock of its own, and that clock is sensitive to when, precisely, we eat.
In Lewis's world we only eat food that is precisely in season.
Not only would Jack eat worms, I know precisely what noise he would make while he ate them: "Bosh".
Yet such an agent lacks the ability to eat a red candy, in precisely the same way as she does in Lehrer's original example.
