Remembering Light And Stone (2012)
“Even up in my apartment I could hear them shouting and bickering about it. In the commercial equivalent of pouring a gallon into a pint pot, they stocked their shop for Christmas, while retaining a full supply of everyday products. Franca masterminded where the things would go, and bossed Davide around even more than usual.
Such mundane things as tinned tomatoes and bottled passata, flour, pasta and sugar would be arranged in precarious heaps in odd corners of the shop, and the shelves left free would be crammed with chocolates, pannetone cakes in the shape of stars and bells; and huge bars of nougat. Franca herself put together gift baskets, with packets of dried wild mushrooms, bottles of olive oil infused with truffle, expensive sweets; all liberally padded beneath with shredded crêpe paper, and embellished on top with star-spangled cellophane, and glossy ribbons. There was a degree of ostentation which in the end didn’t really amount to much. The pictures on the cake-boxes did... more than justice to the modest, light fruit-cakes within.MoreLess
Such mundane things as tinned tomatoes and bottled passata, flour, pasta and sugar would be arranged in precarious heaps in odd corners of the shop, and the shelves left free would be crammed with chocolates, pannetone cakes in the shape of stars and bells; and huge bars of nougat. Franca herself put together gift baskets, with packets of dried wild mushrooms, bottles of olive oil infused with truffle, expensive sweets; all liberally padded beneath with shredded crêpe paper, and embellished on top with star-spangled cellophane, and glossy ribbons. There was a degree of ostentation which in the end didn’t really amount to much. The pictures on the cake-boxes did... more than justice to the modest, light fruit-cakes within.MoreLess
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