They had meat roasting there-the scent of it made Cat's belly twitch.
The food these villains had begun to cook, meat roasting on a stick, and some kind of cakes baking on a flat rock, likely also stolen from their latest victims, smelt very good.
I had a fire going outside in a fireplace with a deep pit, and some fat mammoth meat roasting over it.
Marzipan is, obviously, nothing you would want to put in your mouth but a kind of drip tray for collecting fat off meat roasting on a spit.
Next to Chet was a fake piece of meat roasting on a spit.
A warm, smoky smell filled the air, and he thought he detected the scent of meat roasting on a fire.
There was enough meat roasting down there to feed every belly in the city for seven days; the royal huntsmen would be busy day and night, supplying fresh meat daily.
Efficiently dispatching it, that evening there was fresh meat roasting on a spit over his fire.
I feared it might go on all night but, as the third match finished, the crowd broke up and I saw the reason: the cooking fires had been lit and there was meat roasting on spits all across the camp.
The aromas of food drifted from hundreds of scattered cookfires, bread baking in coals, meat roasting on spits, soup bubbling in kettles hung on tripods.