Happy new year folks. Here's this week's food cartoon, from the Guardian Weekend … It started out as a drunk olive being helped through the door by two other pieces of cocktail fruit while he pretends, to his olive wife, that he is not off his face. Can't remember why we changed it. Maybe we couldn't agree on how, exactly, a lemon would help an olive through a door. PW
Here's a rough sketch of the original idea. Once we have an idea that works on some level for both of us, we boil it down to the simplest possible expression of that idea. Sometimes we boil it down further still and it sticks to the pan, but that's a topic for another blog entry. I think this one benefited from the reduction, like a good demi-glace — I'll stop it with the boiling down analogy now. JB
