For example, Roxanne Dennant recently created Fruit Slabs, organic, vegan fruit leathers with 100 mg of THC.
The Pirie sparkling from Tasmania was similar to the prosecco and tasted acidic enough to cut through the strongest Christmas flavours – brandy butter fruit pudding, slabs of seafood, creamy pavlova.
Shafts of sunlight penetrated serpentine alleys lined by canvas-covered wooden stalls; the harsh light illuminated the bearded faces of Pashtun merchants and their bountiful wares: nuts, spices, dried fruits, tea, slabs of raw meat, live turkeys, blankets, beads of lapis lazuli.
Try the warm doughnut-shaped chocolate lava cake ($6) with its runny molten middle, the fresh pear tart ($6) with its flaky, thin crust and fanned-out fruit slices, the slab of substantial, dense American cheesecake ($6) united with berries and whipped cream, or the Belgian waffle ($8) festooned with berries, melon, granola and vanilla ice cream.
The market is seething with people and animals, and baskets overflow with ripe fruit and vegetables, slabs of crumbly, white cheese, mounds of almonds and cashews and coffee, pastries and sweets.
But Neagle was plunked by another slab of fruit a few seconds later and it baffled him.
Beckstrand says any fruit works in a slab pie, from cherry to strawberry to peach.
The cheese plate with three generously portioned selections, toasted slabs of fruit and nut bread, slices of apple and a mound of berries is one of the best around.
As usual, everything in sight has been made by the artist and his assistants, whether it is a package of disposable diapers, a pressed-glass compote filled with fruit or a banged-up slab of Styrofoam.
The only miss was a claggy "clafoutis", not a puffy, fruit-studded batter, more a slab of cold custard with embedded berries.
