21.   In other words, executives are too busy working to bother with a fancy midday meal.

22.   In this Italian-flavored land, multicourse midday meals are served with an afternoon nap, rather than a hike, in mind.

23.   It seemed as if some people put the beans on to cook after breakfast, in anticipation of the midday meal.

24.   Long a staple of the midday meal in Mediterranean countries, cold soups are suddenly hot in this country.

25.   Often, Pataki will wander in and join Bruno for the midday meal.

26.   The cafe is suddenly silent as each man sorrowfully recalls midday meals past.

27.   The dining room, with its marble fireplace, is set as if for a simple midday meal and the wall clock still ticks off the minutes.

28.   The result has been a work place that works much like a large extended, family, complete with a communal midday meal.

29.   We cooked in the cozy kitchen of a local home, eating the fruits of our labors in a giant midday meal.

30.   Which is exactly what the Four Seasons, considered by many to be the power center of the midday meal, learned several years ago.