On Friday nights, when the magazine was going to bed, there were sumptuous platters of roast beef rolled in, and bars in editors' offices.
When Young was done, the guests were released into the Morgan Library's food-stuffed galleries to pursue humoral dietary theory: among the towering trays and sumptuous platters were herb-stuffed quail eggs with cheese and raisins, artichoke torte, mozzarella-and-chard torte, and Taleggio toasts with cinnamon.
Every half hour there are daily crossings from Portaferry to Strangford, where the Cuan Bar (028 44881222, from £75) on the water's edge makes a nice place to stay, and serves a sumptuous seafood platter.
In her album Cinderella's Eyes she lays out her inner demons and anguish on a platter of sumptuous dance pop hooks and beats.
A sumptuous seafood and grilled meat platter spread.
You can't imagine how these scenes, where we threw down the table and the platters of a sumptuous banquet, were shocking in a country where people waited on line for hours in front of grocery stores.
Quickly we discovered favourite dishes including revuelto (a mixture of sumptuous scrambled egg and potatoes sautéed in an unhealthy quantity of olive oil) and a platter of grilled vegetables with a thick slice of sirloin steak that melts in the mouth.
Manop Sutipayakul, the chief and owner, formerly of Déjà Vu in Montclair, uses his third-generation knowledge of food and the restaurant business to make sumptuous dishes including crisp fried red snapper in a sultry sauce, marinated seared tuna, grilled seafood platter, grilled squid salad, sautéed wild boar, rabbit with curry and sticky ice with mango and coconut milk sauce.
The setting was sumptuous: a faded Maharajah's palace, its gallery laced with rounded windows and a miniature silver train whizzing crystal decanters of whiskey around long tables with silver platters of fruits and sweetmeats.
The interiors were sumptuous.
