Do your characters eat?

I hope this clip from YouTube is okay because I don't have sound at work--I am in fact eating lunch, not blogging on company time. This is the infamous food scene from the 1963 Tom Jones starring the young and handsome Albert Finney, a brilliant film IMO. The lady who is spilling her bounty onto the bounteous table turns out, unfortunately, to be Tom's mum, but never mind that small detail.

So I ask again, do your characters eat?--food, that is. I'm busy researching servants during the Regency at the moment and that's educated me, finally, about food in the period. No, they did not exist entirely on orgeat and lobster patties, or, like most of my characters, on tea and claret. We've talked about writing the big O and writing our fantasies, but how about writing about eating and chewing and taste and texture? Do you think it's sexy or has the potential to be so?

Do you have a favorite scene you've written and would like to share, or a favorite scene you've read or seen in a movie that you'd like to tell us about?