I have green tea with lemon and then make a turmeric latte with ginger, nut milk, and agave.
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With complimentary Champagne on arrival, the menu includes oyster emulsions and ginger nut cakes as well as chocolates to take away at the end of the evening.
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Bartleby shows classic symptoms of depression, especially his lack of motivation. He is a passive person, although he is the only reliable worker in the office other than the narrator and Ginger Nut. Bartleby is a good worker until he starts to refuse to do his work. Bartleby does not divulge any personal information to the narrator.
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The narrator is an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents. He already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey, to copy legal documents by hand, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff.
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Leading scholar on the short fiction Merton Sealts notes that in "Bartleby" knowing references to current events occur, and the supporting characters of Nippers, Turkey, and the errand boy Ginger Nut "could easily have come from the pen of Dickens, Lamb, or Irving."Sealts (1988), 90 The basis for the longest story in the collection, the novella-length "Benito Cereno", is chapter 18 of the last named book, Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. The story is set in 1799 off the coast of Chile, where the Massachusetts captain of merchant ship Bachelor's Delight, Amasa Delano, sees the Spanish slaveship San Dominick in apparent distress. He boards the ship and offers captain Don Benito Cereno his help.
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According to Mitchell, in the mid 1990s, the two writers were working on a different project, when Reeve handed him a chocolate ginger nut, 'sparking a quip about the ‘ministry of biscuit ideas’ from which the entire musical was born.'Louise Carey, 'The Ministry of Biscuits', Daily Brighton website, 29 November 2017. From the first draft, Mitchell knew that the plot was so absurd that it could only be staged as a musical. He told Daily Brighton that, though he had studied music at University, he had a piano that he hadn’t touched for ‘seven years’, but as soon as he began working on The Ministry of Biscuits, ‘music started to bubble out of me’.
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A typical store-bought gingerbread house A full-scale gingerbread house as a Christmas decoration in Stockholm, 2009 (It was made of flour, margarine, sugar, Golden syrup, each of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and baking powder.) A gingerbread house is a novelty confectionery shaped like a building that is made of cookie dough, cut and baked into appropriate components like walls and roofing. The usual material is crisp ginger biscuit made of gingerbread – the ginger nut. Another type of model-making with gingerbread uses a boiled dough that can be moulded like clay to form edible statuettes or other decorations. These houses, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are popular Christmas decorations, often built by children with the help of their parents.
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In Australia, Arnott's Biscuits manufactures four different regional varieties of ginger nut to suit the tastes of people in different states. In Canada and the United States, the usual term is ginger snaps, and they are generally round drop cookies, usually between thick, with prominent cracks in the top surface. Scandinavian ginger nuts, also called ginger bread or "brunkage" in Danish (literally meaning "brown biscuits"), pepparkakor in Swedish, piparkakut in Finnish, piparkūkas in Latvian, piparkoogid in Estonian and pepperkaker in Norwegian (literally, pepper cookies), are rolled quite thin (often under thick), and cut into shapes; they are smooth and are usually much thinner and hence crisper (and in some cases, more strongly flavoured) than most global varieties. Cloves, cinnamon and cardamom are important ingredients of these, and the actual ginger taste is not prominent.
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