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Philip brought over from the bar small
plates of beautiful big shrimps, tails up, and sprinkled
with downy curls of farmers cheese. The shrimp are
impaled upright with toothpicks on the top of a peeled
and boiled egg white sliced away on the bottom so it will
sit flat on the plate. He brings other plates of sliced
baguettes slathered with black olive paste, red onions
bits and bright green and silver sardines. ....
He brings plates of
fried pouches filled with manchego cheese and serrano
ham. All the pinchas are speared with long thick
toothpicks. The toothpicks are saved in a pile and we
will count them at the end of the night to settle our
bill. The restaurant is packed, everyone is standing at
the bar, the noise of chatter and clatter is terrific
and everyone is ...........
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