It took days, even weeks, and in all likelihood a hundred kitchen slaves to prepare the food for a proper Roman feast that is, an orgy in every sense, given the tastes and textures and sights and smells that a rich man served up for his guests before the sex began.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own

It took a long time to prepare the feast, though they had more and more help, as more faeries popped up in the room, some of whom were better sized for the work.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

Each evening we had just enough to prepare fresh lobster tidbits as an appetizer before going out to dinner, and we had a feast of two or three broiled-and-buttered tails for each one of us on our last night.

BBC: Lobster diving in the Abacos