That year at the Synod of Winchester, St Dunstan's feast was ordered to be kept solemnly throughout England.
"We just need to know how many people are in the table, and which feast they ordered, and we know exactly what to do," he said.
Here ensued an orgy of ordering, feasting, sending back, seizing tidbits from one another's plates and the quaffing of much fine wine and Champagne.
Although appetizers can cost as much as $8.95 and fish dishes top out at $18.50, two diners can enjoy a light, lovely meal by ordering the feast of the sea ($12.50 a person).
Lazy Manhattanites have been ordering Thanksgiving feasts from FreshDirect, the second-largest online grocer, which is partly owned by Morrisons.
The 'Meat Feast Parmo' I ordered for £6.50 consisted of a chicken escalope marginally smaller than a satellite dish, deep fried in breadcrumbs, covered in béchamel sauce and melted cheddar cheese, and then topped with pepperoni, bacon, more cheese, and ladles of creamy garlic sauce.
Whether your pills contain 50 or 150mg of MDMA, 36 hours after you began, you're still going to be ordering a Meat Feast and welling up at Grand Designs, contemplating how late you can set your Monday alarm without making you too late for a day in which you're going to get absolutely nothing done.
An encyclopedic binder of neighborhood delivery menus is organized by cuisine — I ordered a feast from the Dumpling Man (dumplingman.com) for $12.
As our children raced after the chickens and cats that roam the premises, my husband and I relaxed on the small veranda, admiring the rustic décor, and ordered a feast — vitello tonnato, gnocchi al pomodoro, pollo a la romana.
High on the good vibes and the cheery service, I order a feast.
