The food is to match, especially among the appetizers: crab dip out of a Junior League cookbook, with potato chips russet with Old Bay seasoning, all celery salt and heat; church-supper Virginia ham, with biscuits that taste morning-made and midday-refrigerated.
Glancing out from the kitchen, where she was fixing something that the old man could heat up for his supper later, Marina saw his white head and the boy's round fair head bent intently over something or other that Liam had dug up out of the earth — a snail shell or a broken bit of china.
Classics from that show include the hilarious "Man Bites Dog," the sexy "Heat Wave" and two numbers, "Supper Time" and "Harlem on My Mind," both introduced by Ethel Waters, that revealed an empathy with the alienation of African-Americans.
There are seven-inch tortes, which easily serve four and are convenient to heat for a quick lunch or supper with a salad.
Around a hundred of them were pecking the ground searching for supper in the extreme heat, occasionally giving us a spectacular view of their deep pink wings as they flew.
Besides, plugging into the grid at peak hours is just about the last thing utilities encourage when the public is arriving home from work, turning on the heating or air-conditioning, starting to cook supper and watching television.
Forget suppers of heat-and-eat pizza washed down with a glass or two of red wine.
At supper, the welcome-home meal reappeared, heated in Bonita's microwave, which she had bought with some of Dakotah's money.
Flaky-crusted potpies are an easy cold-weather supper, especially when all you're doing is heating them up.
A tub of fresh brandade (pureed potato and salt cod), heated and served with a pile of green veg, makes a great supper.
