Eight mouthwatering quotes from the greatest literary feasts

At the Guardian Phoebe Walker tagged eight of the best feasts quotes in literature, including:"The most prominent object was a long table with a table-cloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together. An épergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite