Why settle for garnishing food with fresh-ground pepper–or even my mother’s four wicked secret tricks?
The Nobel banquet staff dessert “presentation” requires a Mozart mini-opera prelude, plus hundreds of waitstaff marching in unison, holding trays high with one hand and ringing small bells with the other.
Those three flights of marble stairs add dramatic tension, and I’m told waiters aren’t allowed to help serve dessert until they are veterans of previous Nobel banquets.