“Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door!” So wrote Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol, inspiring generations of readers … and our own Chef Joe Cizynski, who will serve a dinner in tribute to the Dickens classic, the season, and the power of the feast to warm our spirits. Chef Joe will prepare oyster stew with root vegetables, smoked goose and lentil salad, roast suckling pig with cranberries and oranges, and finish with a pear, blackberry and white chocolate cobbler. Family groups will be seated together, socially distanced from other tables, in the Constantinidis Great Hall. Other CDC protocols will be observed. Come celebrate great food, the holiday season, and the prospect of better days to come.