It took a surprisingly long time — three years — because Roche was cautious, starting with a tiny dose and gradually escalating it.
There is no menu, so the courses just begin appearing, starting with a tiny salad of fiddlehead ferns bathed in white miso and scented with kinome, an herb that tastes of lemon and mint with a peppery kick.
Among the men who created modern Italy, the colorful revolutionaries Mazzini and Garibaldi were better known in London than Cavour, but it was he, a liberal monarchist, who in the end unified the country, starting with a tiny kingdom generally known as Piedmont, that included the island of Sardinia.
(Lower down the ramp, Smith's earlier output, starting with a tiny figure in wire and coral from 1932, makes for an uneven, more usual kind of show, with no special relation to its setting, consisting of dozens of riffs on Cubistic form and Surrealistic style strongly reminiscent of Picasso, Julio González, and, especially, early Giacometti).
The Chinese author Xinran has documented a string of such cases starting with a tiny baby girl she rescued from a public toilet in 1990; when Xinran reported the case in a broadcast on the radio station where she worked, the mother called in to say: "My money's running out.
Black and Radler built Hollinger from scratch, starting with a tiny, money-losing English-language paper in French-speaking Quebec, the Sherbrooke Record.
Mr. Schenk starts with a tiny dill-potato roll made by his pastry chef, David Carmichael.
What has become a serious occupation started with a tiny violin that was meant as an ornament.
"Start with a tiny taste – a piece smaller than a finger nail – and offer a sticker reward for tasting" advises Wardle who recommends the Tiny Tastes game.
Once kick-started with a tiny amount of enriched uranium, it would run for decades on non-enriched, depleted uranium, a widely available material.
It started with a tiny ceramic teapot and that led to a lacquered bamboo dish in a bright abstract pattern, then a hand-woven scarf.
