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Should I go for the smoked salmon and cream cheese canapé or the sandwich with dry-cured ham and sheep's cheese?
The tray of appetizers, titillating me with various expensive options, dazzled me with an array of colorful combinations of tastes and smells. There was the tartelette with caviar, the cured elk sausage (just enough fat to make it soft, but not greasy; a bit of pepper accentuated the aroma of the dark meat, without making it spicy), the cuts of cold meat, deviled eggs, many different cheeses, pickles, olives, all to taste.
I think you aren't supposed to mix all those flavors. There's an order for tasting them, supposedly. Grandpa would certainly disapprove of my manners.
I did what every other dark mage in the party did: filled my plate with the most expensive dishes, tast
