A California writer feeds her tweens hefty snacks so they can eat supper with her husband, around 9 p.m.
"I don't eat supper," she said.
According to its publisher, Marja Mills's new book about Harper Lee is a chronicle of her friendship with the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird and her older sister, telling of coffees shared at McDonalds and trips to the laundromat in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, catfish suppers and feeding the ducks.
One, Village of Hope, which has 29 severely disabled children, who were being fed gruel for supper during a recent visit, said it had never received a single basket.
The turkey was blessed and fed a last supper of organic grain before it was killed and priced accordingly.
Really, the barbecue is just another agreeable weapon in the thinking cook's arsenal, more appropriate for a family lunch or friends over for supper than for feeding the whole village/street/cricket team.
Many men are stuck in the "old days" way of thinking, and expect women to do the housework and cook supper, while also feeding, bathing and getting the kids put to bed.
As I was breastfeeding my baby at that time, the image of Jesus feeding his friends at the last supper, and then the church for generations and generations, had a profound resonance for me.
And judging by the last supper, the miracle of feeding thousands with two fish and a bread loaf, and the dining with tax collectors and prostitutes, Jesus was all about large dinners with a cross-section of people.
