I'm indebted: it's little short of miraculous – a rubble of pale meat stuffed into a vast, scarlet tomato and baked until it leaches the butteriest, most savoury juices.
There's a counter stacked with cheeses and salamis, a display of superior tableware and cookware, and there, running down the centre, are the cooked foods - scarlet peppers stuffed with white mozzarella, squelchy braised fennel, chicken liver pâté, chicken curry, braised rabbit.
Further excitement comes from the daily specials board: mammoth, scarlet carabineros, empanadillas stuffed with wild rabbit, razor clams, tiny delicate tellinas (clams), pig's trotters.
Right there in the middle of it was an art installation that included a stuffed zebra on a leash, blindfolded women in scarlet prom dresses and a boxer in velvet briefs.
A watercress salad comes with orange slices, feta, and scarlet-tinted pickled onions in a sherry-wine vinaigrette; the dorade is stuffed with lemon slices and sachets of rosemary and thyme; earthy button mushrooms have a hint of white wine.
It's not a pleasant fate for a much-loved stuffed animal, but a doctor has declared him infested with germs from his young owner's bout of scarlet fever.
Apart from some early bright stuff from the Scarlets, who released their backline effectively, the first quarter turned into a place-kicking contest between Stephen Jones and Andy Goode, one of four Englishmen in the French side's 22. Honours were even in that kicking contest at two penalties each during the first quarter.
Ruban is scarlet and scratchy, the stuff we bought before a costume party to tie a letter "A" around my neck.
I loved reading, which was probably why I was in AP in the first place, but the stuff Mrs. Peters was making us read -- Silas Marner, Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter -- was brutal.
Serve up in a scarlet stack, smother in your sauce with a dribble of canned milk and stuff your face in the name of religion.
