We have reached a split decision, 3-2, on the issue of dessert. This is the popular choice, "Arlettes aux abricots et feuilles de tilleul", and no one offers me so much as a taste of theirs. It must be pretty good.

"My wife is feeling precisely the same way, I see, about the ice cream. She looks shaken, incredulous. ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever tasted,’ she says. How an ice cream or a sweet of any kind could possibly surpass a savory masterpiece like the lobster and chestnuts, or the sauce poulette---until thirty seconds ago the best things _I_ had ever tasted---is well beyond me, particularly for my palate."

- A Meal Observed, p. 167