The apprentice set two small bowls on the pass, each with a different soup. A customer leaned through the open counter hatch, waiting to taste them.
“Which is for table six?” the head cook asked.
“The customer asked to taste both before choosing.”
The cook offered a spoon from each bowl. The customer tasted the fennel first, then the soup made with the green stems the kitchen usually threw away.
“I'll have the second,” the customer said.
The apprentice moved the other bowl to the staff table. The head cook took it before anyone else could.
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