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Tanker wasn’t having a good day. Though he had held positions of kitchen authority up to and including chef de cuisine at one of Lenny Duveteaux’s restaurants, his first love was desserts. Most hardcore chefs didn’t take desserts very seriously, but Tanker had always been captivated by them, and they were what Rickey had hired him to do. He’d invented a great many liquor-based sweet dishes, including a chocolate Napoleon death mask filled with brandy mousse that had become Liquor’s signature meal-ender.
He struggled constantly with an urge to push his dishes beyond the boundaries of weirdness Rickey found acceptable, and now, in Rickey’s absence, he was pretty sure he’d overstepped himself. The dish in question was made of very thinly shaved Charentais melon with a sauce of Opal Nero S
