Summarized Delicious Description

It is an enriching experience to be part of the Living Writers Program. Before every author’s visit, there is a massive spread of gourmet food, half an hour, before the author’s talk. I have been amazed at the quality of food provided. I  want to describe and give a detailed description of the most recent spread, and the delicious variety of foods presented. I want to re-live that again.

On two massive tables, on a clean white table cloth, there are orange, red, golden striped mini paper plates with matching napkins set on the sides of the tables. On the first table there is a small wooden board that has 4 types of cheeses surrounded with a lettuce garnish. There are 4 rows of the 4 different cheeses. Next to the board is another box of three different types of crackers. Two different varieties of multi-grain and one row of plain.

Next to this is a round plastic bowl of grapes: red and green. As you go along further, one can see another bowl, but this time contained of big oranges. Next to this lies a glass bowl containing pita bread triangles filled with hummus. Next to it is a basket with pumpkin bread squares on red cloth. Around these dishes are plastic cups, covered in plastic wrap, containing carrot, celery, red capsicum, and cucumber sticks sticking out from a  spread of red-pepper hummus. In another set of plastic cups, covered in plastic wrap, is  yogurt parfait covered in a layer of granola.

On the next table there are two huge silver cookie sheets, one that has pumpkin pie slab and the other one that has some sort apple-cinnamon crumble pie. In the middle of the cookie sheets, set on the white table-cloth is a medium size Reddi whip. At the far edge of the table, there are cans of diet-coke,bottles of Ocean Spray cranberry juice, and mini-bottles of Poland Spring water. Towards the end of the table there is medium size, thick, grey plastic tray. Placed on this tray are white, thickly frosted carrot cake square pieces. At the end is a silver bucket of sweet,spiced cider.

I tried everything, except the carrot cake, only because it had raisins. The pumpkin pie slab was creamy and sweet. The filling inside of the two toffee-colored crumble layers was a delicious thick pumpkin spread. The other tray containing the other kind of pie, had no name card placed next to it, so I am not entirely sure, but I am fairly positive that it was some sort of apple pie. It had an apple cinnamon spread within the crumbled layers. It was delicious. I want to learn how to make pie after eating this. I am going back home in a month, hopefully my mum can figure out some recipe and teach me. She is a good baker. I asked my friend how the carrot cake tasted. He described it as “dry, but the raisins break in the texture, so overall good”

By the time I got to the cider bucket, the cider was nearly gone, so I got to try just a little bit of it, but the bit that I tasted was divine. I am going to try to learn to make that too. Perfect for the cold weather.