Category: Food and drink
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A Toast
Ladies and Gentlemen! Cheers! Raise your glasses (preferably those filled with blood red wine that aren’t topped by the newly discovered red spiderbats) as Hallowe’en is upon us. We’ve already seen witches and ghosts, zombies, werewolves, vampires, eerie mists and haunted houses, banshees, kitchens, dolls and children. And variations in between… but what will come…
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Trick or Treat
A birthday cake for Halloween. A Halloween cake for a birthday. There’s nothing tricky about this treat… apart from eating it discreetly!
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The Unicorn Challenge: Still Life
The day was quiet. Early morning: quiet. Midday rush: quiet. Afternoon lull: well, considering it felt as though it took a week to get to the midday rush, the afternoon lull was beyond quiet. The only people in the marketplace were the traders. Some sat literally twiddling their thumbs waiting for a customer. When the…
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Precise Decoration
What are you doing voice A asked, within a distant echo; that’s not right, commented voice B, slightly ahead; leave him to it, voice C said from somewhere behind, he’s concentrating. Tom pulled his tongue back into his mouth and carefully carried the small, silver sugared bead in a tweezer, and then carefully and precisely…
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‘How hard can running a Bistro actually be?’ – Kitchen Magick
I pop my head through the doors to the bar, catching the last of Nick (the Gatekeeper)’s words “…how hard can it be…?” which, oddly, was my last thought as I looked at the instructions and ingredients for the quality food that is usually produced at the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Ford was playing…
The Mansionic Perspective 