Each meal opens with a fluffy rosemary flatbread, wafting heat.
Whichever way you go, it's more feast than famine, as the meal opens with a table-covering Lebanese spread of puffy, freshly baked flatbreads, pickles and raw vegetables, presented in a manageable miniature form, including cherry tomatoes, baby gems and small Lebanese cucumbers.
The next it was Tropik Bistrot, a French restaurant on a hill where the meal opened with vegetable spears in a thick, tasty dipping sauce, followed by fresh baguettes sawed into pieces in front of us, lumps of coconut crabmeat and a superb prawn dish with garlic, herb and lemon-grass cream sauce.
Thus, the festive meal opens with a centuries-old custom of dipping apple slices into honey, followed by dipping challah into honey (rather than into salt, as is done with bread the rest of the year).
The deal includes lodging, meals, open bar and resort activities for a day (children 15 and younger get an additional 50percentt discount).
This tariff includes transportation to and from the nearby town of Paran, all meals, open bar, etc.
Evening meals (open to residents only) take in traditional Mauritian dishes, while the beautiful lagoon in front of the hotel is perfect for swimming (leslataniersbleus.com; from £100).
Brooks Lake Lodge & Spa is a rustic spot with wagon-wheel light fixtures, a crackling fire and midday meals open to guests and visitors alike in winter.
No longer simply the domain of canned corn and peanut butter, food banks are preparing ready-to-eat meals, opening their own farms and partnering with institutions as varied as local supermarkets and state prisons to help gather and process food.
Sharing meals opens this kind of dialogue.
