Supper is an old-fashioned term for a casual family meal that lost favor sometime in the ’50s. Chefs have been helping bring supper back, though: Los Angeles chef Suzanne Goin even wrote a book about it. Sunday’s the right time for supper—you have time to cook and it’s a great start to a week. So, get a group of four together, make this menu, and enjoy a Sunday supper that will finish early enough that you won’t regret it on Monday morning.
Roasted Rosemary and Lemon Chicken 
The fantasy Sunday supper dish, fragrant and robust.
Turnip and Pear Purée
An earthy, savory-sweet side.
Green Beans with
Shallots
A crowd-pleaser of a side dish.
I eat supper every day, that's what we grew up calling dinner. It happens about 5:00 and is always casual. The above menu is way too fancy for my mom to have considered making it for anything but a special occassion.
I like the menu, generally. My only criticism of it is that the chicken dish requires too much hands on time. I like the timing of the rest of it; you can put the cake together and put it in the oven, then put the turnip/pear dish on to cook and get the beans ready to cook. If the chicken were able to be whacked into the oven at the start of it all and left alone, the whole meal would be able to be done in 2 hours start to finish with only about 30 minutes of hands on time. Making for a very nice Sunday supper.
Souper (supper) is the belgian word for dinner (French: diner) . It's the evening meal.
Then again, we déjeune (verb: déjeuner, without the French 'petit' epitheton) in the morning and dine (verb: diner) at noon.
You shouldn't soupe before 7PM
in the south, i was raised with 'sunday dinner' which was at noon, with supper being the regular evening meal...
isn't there a cole porter lyric is reference to the age old question? "which should upper, my dinner or my supper?"
Interesting thread on the use of the term supper. I still say "what's for supper" when I am eating at home. And yes it's way to close to 5pm. I would say I'm going out for dinner, when I am going to a restaurant. I never thought about it before but supper is an bygone term. Outdated like supper club but coming back in an ironic kind of way. Sunday Dinner would indeed be the noon meal probably more like 1pm since you had to drive to you aunt's house or something. Any other day of the week we had lunch at noon -or 11.
Supper is still used by my Pennsylvanian family. Dinner is more of the lunchtime meal, but only on Sunday. Every other day it's called lunch.
Then you have a late lunch called lupper. You eat this after brunch. Ha! :oP
I was raised to have dinner at 12pm and supper at 5 pm. but I
don`t care what you call it, it`s just the way people are . so who`s
to say who is right or wrong. I eat when I`m hungry no matter what you call it.