Charcuterie board

This is a Whole Foods flier, an email advertisement. They're too fascinating to be annoying. I kill off a hundred spam mails each day but keep these, and study them. I find the photographs, food styling, the arrangements, the choices of items all fascinating. These guys are pros. And as I look I must notice there isn't all that much meat. A pass by their deli counter would provide a lot more than pancetta, salami and pepperoni. Come on! They could have cured and uncured ham, capicola, smoked turkey, brisket, all kinds of sausages. Their selection is fantastic. There are as many grape varieties here than meat, more cheese here than meat, more off-the-wall fruit and vegetables than meat, pomegranate, artichoke, figs.

They arranged the grapes as if they are fabric. They went by color putting green dots with red. They did not take clumps of grapes and toss them on the board, they trimmed each clump and arranged them carefully. They arranged bread and crackers on the outside with chutney. It's an organized artistic mess, more an artist's palate than a painting. The bread is sliced and arranged so its crumb shows yet still appears random. Nothing about this is spontaneous yet it looks zen. It takes a careless sloppy attitude with an artist's eye to arrange for that specifically tight tossed and tumbled carefree look that takes hours to prepare.

Like my hair.

Kidding.

I haven't seen these moon drop grapes before. And if I did see them, I'd buy them. Just to experiment. If they have seeds I'd be all ptu ptu ptuey. Then plant the seeds to see if they grow.