Roasts that bring to mind Dickens’ feast

Roast turkey is the highlight of the Christmas Eve dinner, Christmas high tea and Christmas dinner buffets at Asiatique.

EVER since thumbing through the pages of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as a child, Christmas dinner is incomplete without a roast of some sort.

For this association, blame goes to Dickens, whose description of a glistening goose (turkey was considered a luxury in Dickensian England) bursting at the seams with sage and onion stuffing, and served with sides of apple sauce and mashed potatoes, fascinated me to no end.