Cassandra said that her drink was perfect. In fact, the beta-lactoglobulin foam lasted longer than the stirred egg white. In addition, I indicated to Cassandra that our bourbon produced less carbon emissions. She didn’t find that interesting.
I needed her to like her drink, so she could have another. Cassandra, a former vegetarian, was not looking forward to our evening. “Fake meat has a lot of crap. I don’t like highly processed foods, ”she said. “I know many unhealthy vegetarians.”
To change her mood, I presented her with a bunch of lab-made diamond jewelry. Diamond mining is a brutal industry, according to everything I learned from watching a Leonardo DiCaprio film. DiCaprio is actually an investor in Diamond Foundry, a Silicon Valley company that slowly cultivates diamonds in a reactor that heats plasma to 10,000 degrees, the heat of the outer layers of the sun.
Their diamonds are sold for slightly less than mined. That means I had to kindly tell Cassandra that the $ 6,400 tennis bracelet, the $ 3,300 earrings, the $ 5,400 ring and the $ 4,500 necklace looked great on it, but it had to be returned the next day, as do the red carpet celebrities. His mood was not corrected.
She, however, said – quite spontaneously – that my skin was glowing. I had no idea if it was because of the cobwebs, human collagen, two cocktails or my concern about returning the diamonds.
My son, Laszlo, was a more difficult guest to dispute. “I was going to heat up some chicken nuggets,” he said. But as soon as he saw the food and considered the effort of preparing nuggets in the microwave, he decided to try it out. “It doesn’t look disgusting.”