Taste & Seder

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Taste:


Have you ever experienced a sedar that’s been going on for what seems like forever and all you can think about is food? Now, imagine a long table like that of Hogwarts’ Mess Hall, and fill those seats with creatures of all different sizes each having a black hole enlarging within their stomach. That famished feeling that makes you feel like an animal waiting for its prey to arrive, but then realizing you must fight others to get something to quench the storm. That’s war my friends, and in the Davidson household, when the food is set forth on the table, Yahweh help the weakest one. But let me tell you something! When you get that food on your plate and stuffing your face full of food, you get the taste that is purely sensational! The combination of all the food that you could grab quickly enough combined somehow created an array of tastes that strangely work together. The explosion of flavor takes over and you experience something spectacular.

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