Every weekend in November, the hotel will offer Feasts of the Forest workshops, which focus on ingredients like porcini mushrooms, truffles and olive oil.
Mikhail Bakhtin, in "Rabelais and His World," offers feast for thought: "One might say that carnival celebrated temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order".
Back on land, as suggested by guidebooks, I try for a seat at a cottagey hideaway close to St . Georges called Patrick's, whose calledPatrick Levine, offers feasts of local fare, and Welcome manages to get me a table on my second night on the island.
The ethnic mix of Europeans, Polynesians, Chinese and Asians has created areas such as Northbridge, in the city centre, which offer a feast of disparate cuisines.
The Late Night Proms offer a feast of eclectic music with everything from Paloma Faith performing alongside the Guy Barker Orchestra to an evening with singer-songwriter and opera composer Rufus Wainwright and Britten Sinfonia.
The bright colors of the cartons and the interplay of the book covers -- "Conversations With Duchamp" alongside Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" alongside a book about that modernist icon of lovesickness, Krazy Kat -- offer a feast of visual, historical and philosophical ideas.
To collectors whose tastes run more to the meat-and-potatoes segment of the market, Britain's mass-market brands offer a feast of choices from 650cc to 850cc, including the Triumph Bonneville; BSA's Lightning, Spitfire and Firebird; and Norton's Atlas and Commando.
In contrast, farmland habitats can offer a feast and famine situation for insects: when a crop such as oil seed rape is in flower, pollinators will flock, but once the bloom is over, there is little there for them.
Shenzhen's legendary electronics markets and online retailers offer a feast of components on demand, allowing for the rapid tinkering and iterating that fuels innovation.
But if you're going to introduce children to opera, not to mention please the opera-loving grownups in the house, you must offer a feast for ears and eyes.
