A huge pile of sweet, clean mussels made another delightful opener.
Portions of meat come with a pile of sweet plantains, tender red beans and fluffy yellow rice.
And there you have it: the computer-assisted future of cuisine, in the form of a pile of sweet-smelling, mud-colored radishes.
"Look at this," she said, retrieving her hand, which now cradled a little pile of sweet-smelling, moist compost, complete with fat earthworms.
I showed up early in the afternoon, was issued a paring knife, a glass of wine and a pile of sweet peas, and assumed my place with the rest of the Freitagsküche crew.
Out came a desert assortment that included a smoothie made from red-black arctic raspberries, sorbet made from yellow cloudberries and a pile of sweet, amazingly juicy woodland strawberries.
(Durang also told me that once, when he was visiting the family's apartment, on the Upper East Side, Wasserstein opened the kitchen cabinets, and, as he put it, "I think there was a little pile of Sweet'n Low and some instant coffee, and that was it").
Coming after that and a pile of sweet razor clams bathed in olive oil and wine, with a glass of greenish-gold Verdejo, cool and honeyed with spiciness well suited to the garlic and richness that stands up to the fish, then it is something quite a bit more.
Love and loss, towards the end of González-Torres's career, became the generator for some of the most beautiful and moving artworks of the age: piles of sweets that weighed the same as his dead lover, or paired strings of lightbulbs that intertwined and shone together.
It's like when you go to a pick-and-mix bar and pile loads of sweets into a bag and shake it up.
