OK, reporting back. They are... divisive cakes. Kid said "this is the worst" and got a cookie. So that's one opinion.
The winner for me is the one on the right - labne, pistachio(?) halva. Tart, with a savory hit from the halva. Surprising and delightful.
The one that looks like cherries was a ruby chocolate mousse. I wanted to love this cake, but it's so moussy, and the ruby chocolate did nothing for me. I like the sour flavor, but the rest is just, eh.
The rectangular one, top left was... charcoal flavor, maybe? I have no idea. I didn't get it. I'd like to find out what it was supposed to be. Or was it made of this? theatlantic.com/health/archive…
To be clear, it said it was a "tonka cake" so I'm guessing it was made with this.
The other one was a cherry(?) chocolate tart of some kind, but again, heaven knows what the other ingredients were. It was... good. I'd eat it again.
But like, all 4 of them would be defeated by a good but not great tarte au citron to my palette. Am I getting unsophisticated?
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Our appellate practice is about to go from a year of 1 or 2 trials by zoom to a *flood* of in-person trials. And I know talking to other peers this is the same for them. The Summer of Trials!
Fingers crossed that the disease really is on its last legs here and the vaccines hold up (I believe they will).
May all the errors be clear and the discretions abused!
I saw the debate about the opinion in @tedfrank's class action case yesterday. I think I've said my piece on that (tldr: more and more I'm on Team Dry Opinions).
Put that aside, I thought I'd do a little experiment - take a few passages and strip out the flourishes 1/
Some cool news: my colleague Eric Boettcher's amicus brief (when he was still in Minnesota) was cited twice in Justice Breyer's opinion in U.S. v. Cooley
Other than a DIG or something caused by an amicus, this is the amicus blue ribbon it seems to me, so nice job Eric!
I will add - this piece of work is what I'm talking about when I say you have to be a little maniacal about appellate work. Here, Eric put himself in a position to write a brief as counsel of record when I'm sure this was not the most profitable thing he could have been doing.
Finally broke down and bought myself an ooni pizza oven (the smallest gas one)
Total delight. Some learning curve today with the first pies (you really have to turn the pizza aggressively) and I got the temp a little wrong. But it’s a great little machine.
Pics tomorrow on round 2. But flavor was amazing - and really cooks in the advertised 90 seconds.
I’m having my parents over for Sunday lunch, and I’m going to make 5 or 6 pies, so I’ll give it a real workout.