The result is a warm, creamy, oozing sliver of pleasure.
Late at night, after we'd finished our interviews, he would take me to one of the tiny hole-in-the-wall kiosks where Florentines gather to eat plates of tripe à la Fiorentina (in a rich tomato-based sauce) or slivers of warm prosciutto, and to slug brusque but satisfying Chianti.
A bowl of warm mixed olives was piqued, ingeniously, with slivers of preserved lemon.
Warm up the soup, optionally adding thin slivers of celery-root leaves for their assertive flavor.
Cook Time: 20 - 30 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes, Cooling Time: 2-3 hourSoakalmondond and pistachio slivers with the saffron in warm milk.
The banquettes were backlighted, and thin slivers cut into the low ceiling allowed warm incandescent light to fall over the room.
Salade niçoise, sort of: On or around a bed of greens, make mounds of olives, cooked new potatoes and green beans (warm or at room temperature), good tomatoes, capers, fennel slivers, hard-cooked eggs and good quality Italian canned tuna.
The appetizers, by and large, point toward the sea, and you could do no better than the oyster chowder, a warm, frothy soup with plump oysters, little clusters of sevruga caviar, and slivers of applewood-smoked bacon.
A closer look, however, reveals more New Age flourishes: a salad made with this year's "it" vegetable, kale, mixed with chopped almonds, smoked Gouda and slivers of tart Granny Smith apples, and a gingery vegetarian stew seasoned with warm spices like cumin and cinnamon that a vegan can eat with confidence and pleasure.
To eat it, you pierce through a crisp, sugary snowcap to discover first a layer of warm, floppy meringue, then a pocket of vanilla ice cream and finally a well of tart and boozy slivers of grapefruit macerating in the grapefruit shell.
