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There was a salad selection with the usual, unchallenging choices of Caesar, mixed-green, Greek, fresh beet to which chicken could be added at an additional charge, along with a choice of seven different dressings.

Dear God why?!

Underneath his blue moleskin jacket, he wore an aubergine cotton shirt with contrasting inner collar that was open to the second button. It had an irregular pattern of green and gold geometric shapes that almost matched the restaurant carpeting.

Pages and pages and pages of this.

The seminar tables had been arranged banquet-style in long, horizontal rows covered in shiny gold, easy-care, poly-cotton tablecloths. The rows were separated symmetrically to create a long center aisle down which attendees could walk to reach their assigned seats.

Deep breath.
Out slow.

The furniture stood imperiously on an enormous olive-green Axminster carpet with a cream-colored center medallion of woven swans and cornucopias. The coffee table was of Chinese lacquer with blackened, fluted legs.

Pages and pages of this is exhausting!

For me an exotic spice is salt in butter.