Cassandra said her drink was perfect. In fact, the foaming of the beta-lactoglobulin lasted longer than shaken egg whites would do. On top of that, I pointed out to Cassandra that our bourbon produces less carbon emissions. She did not find it interesting.
I needed her to like her drink so she could drink another one. Cassandra, a former vegetarian, was not looking forward to our evening. ‘There’s a lot of shit in fake meat. “I do not like highly processed foods,” she said. “I know a lot of unhealthy vegetarians.”
To change her mood, I offered her a bunch of jewelry with lab-made diamonds. Diamond mining is a cruel industry according to everything I have ever learned from watching one Leonardo DiCaprio movie. Mr. DiCaprio is in fact an investor in Diamond Foundry, a Silicon Valley company that is slowly growing diamonds in a reactor that heats plasma to 10,000 degrees, the heat of the outer layers of the sun.
The diamonds sell for just a little less than mined. That meant I had to gently tell Cassandra that the $ 6,400 tennis bracelet, $ 3,300 earrings, $ 5,400 ring and $ 4,500 necklace looked very good to her, but that they would have to be returned the next day like celebrities with red carpets. . Her mood was not fixed.
However, she said, completely unnoticed, that my skin was glowing. I had no idea if it was due to the cobwebs, human collagen, two cocktails or my concern about returning the diamonds.
My son, Laszlo, was a harder guest to wrestle with. “I heated up some chicken cookies,” he said. But when he first saw the food, and considered the hassle of aiming for nuggets, he decided to give it a try. “It does not look disgusting.”