From a dream I didn't have

The restaurant was so avant-garde -- well, let me tell you about their amuse-bouche.

The waiter puts down a small silver tray with wooden handles. He tells you about the silver (mined by happy Bolivians in an ecological-sensitive manner) and the wood (sustainably-grown cedar). On the tray is a glass of water, a glass egg-timer, and a tiny metal dome, a two inch hemisphere. The waiter explains that you drink the water, turn over the egg-timer, and when it has finished dripping Hawaiian beach sand, you can pick up the dome and eat what you find underneath.

It is a cherry tomato. There is a meticulously folded handwritten note under the tomato. The tomato was grown in the restaurant's rooftop garden, and pulled from the stem ten minutes prior to the expiration of the timer.

From a dream I didn't have

The restaurant was so avant-garde -- well, let me tell you about their amuse-bouche.

The waiter puts down a small silver tray with wooden handles. He tells you about the silver (mined by happy Bolivians in an ecological-sensitive manner) and the wood (sustainably-grown cedar). On the tray is a glass of water, a glass egg-timer, and a tiny metal dome, a two inch hemisphere. The waiter explains that you drink the water, turn over the egg-timer, and when it has finished dripping Hawaiian beach sand, you can pick up the dome and eat what you find underneath.

It is a cherry tomato. There is a meticulously folded handwritten note under the tomato. The tomato was grown in the restaurant's rooftop garden, and pulled from the stem ten minutes prior to the expiration of the timer.