There’s a fantastic scene in Ridley Scott’s Legend where Tim Curry, as the character simply called Darkness, towers over Mia Sara, playing a bewitched princess. She sits uncomfortably at the head of a massive dining table overflowing with foods, familiar and alien, meant to express Darkness’ utterly superficial attempts to woo her. Darkness crows, “Eat…drink!” with a devilish confidence that would have made Bela Lugosi recoil. This evening, I bowed to that simple command by cooking several dishes with their presentation in mind. One dish, a mixture of stacked morel mushrooms, fennel puree, mustard vinaigrette, basil vinaigrette, and fennel fronds resulted in the little pyramids of texture and taste shown below.
