Curiously, there is a link between plush Siro's and the plain dinners in the workers' tent: several of Siro's society mainstays were pivotal in starting them.
He made it plain that dinner would wait until someone did.
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Meanwhile, Aziz looks back regretfully on all those "stupid drink[s] at a local bar," but his first date with the woman he loves was just plain old dinner.
It was popular with sporty squires, however, who were drawn to "very good plain English dinners" and "some famous gin punch".
Although the book does contain a few conspicuously extravagant recipes, if anything it errs on the side of frugality, with many pages devoted to plain family dinners and the use of leftovers.
It's almost a relief that the next day's ride to Dinner Plain is overcast.
By the time I entered my second season of shows last September, all I was eating was oatmeal with water for breakfast, a banana and a few grapes for lunch and plain lettuce for dinner, maybe with a bit of fish,' she tells this month's Teen Vogue magazine.
A more manageable road quest is the 7 Peaks Alpine Ascent Challenge, in which participating riders pedal to the top of seven mountains – Mount Hotham (1,862m), Mount Buffalo (1,723m), Mount Baw Baw (1,567m), Mount Buller (1,805m), Lake Mountain (1,433m), Falls Creek (1,600m) and Dinner Plain (1,520m) – collecting stamps in a 7 Peaks passport at each summit.
I made myself get up and cook dinner: plain wheat pasta with no sauce.
But for now I can think of nothing much better than a dinner of plain crushed peas.
