It comes with exceptionally good bread – a white with a loose, lightly sour crumb and a crust of high-baked crunch, and a foccacia that is all spring and lusciousness.
There are no Oompa Loompas, but there are cascades of molten chocolate and metal trays piled high with butter crunch, peanut brittle and marshmallow pies.
The fourth volume picks up the story at the end of the second world war and takes it up to the pre-dotcom, pre-Enron, pre-credit crunch high point of 2000.
While the credit crunch, high interest rates and lack of affordability have increased fears of a slowing nationwide housing market, in London and some of Britain's prime areas, prices are on the rise.
"In each case, the higher the credit crunch, there was very little relationship between the price the assets were sold for and the underlying fundamental asset values," he said.
Riding into Manhattan from Kennedy International Airport at rush hour, they're likely to find themselves cramped in the back seat, knees pressed against an ugly metal barrier, with seat belts buried under the seat cushions, air-conditioning too low or heat too high and bags crunched into the trunk.
Yet it barely whispered a peep of discontent when Congress introduced a bill to alleviate the high-skilled immigrant crunch for tech companies.
Samoa's cause had been hampered when Leota earned a yellow card for a crunching high tackle on Ford and his return from the sin bin stemmed England's run of scores.
Gareth Barry was fortunate to escape either a card or a penalty for a crunching high challenge on Glenn Whelan that the Stoke man did well to recover from, then David Silva was floored in an aerial challenge with Dean Whitehead and had to be bandaged before he could continue.
Or a bowl of crunch high-protein cereal.
