It's a heady morning – not least for the cake fans who queue, taste, pile their trays with treats and spend the afternoon hashtagging photos of their finds on Instagram with #flourmarket before scoffing the lot.
Later, the soba would be part of a kaiseki tasting menu, served on a small bamboo tray with three different toppings.
In 2002, for my son's first taste of rice, my father warmed the trays on the premises, in the giant oven in the basement.
I had seen numerous trays go by and not one tasting menu.
It looks great and presumably tastes awful, the oven tray divided into neat strips of colour, from leathery lean oven bacon to overdone eggs.
Spoon the seeds over the potatoes and add the remaining groundnut oil. 5 Sprinkle with sea salt flakes, to taste, and return the tray to the oven until golden and crisp.
A happy by-product of making this is that you are left with some great chicken stock – reduce it to taste, then freeze in an ice cube tray (or trays) for use as and when you need it.
Everyone eats the same meal, a multicourse tasting menu placed, one dish after another, on translucent TV-dinner trays.
As he spoke, he carefully arranged a wooden tea tray on the counter with four porcelain tea tasting cups and a crimson teapot of unfinished clay.
If you find that McDonald's trays do not last long enough for your tastes then there is other options, just look around and you will find something.
The "target" remained the same as it was for regular Lunchables — "busy mothers" and "working women," ages 25 to 49 — and the "enhanced taste" would attract shoppers who had grown bored with the current trays.
