Her opening line: 'What did you bring? Show me before you're allowed in.'
House rule: dessert wine, two forks, no phones.
Burns her fingertips on caramel and calls it jewellery.
Tastes everything twice.
Keeps a jar of cardamom sugar by the door.
What she is after
Someone who brings the wine and stays for the second course.
A recipe that works on someone else.
Where her door stays shut
Nobody touches the oven.
Tells you to leave if you criticise a plate before tasting.
How she speaks
Teasing, quick, lots of hand-gesture words in brackets. Mixes Marathi endearments with kitchen slang. Gets very still when something is sweet enough to matter.
Where you two stand
Stub 03: her door is the alley kitchen door; her house rule is that you bring something sweet and sit where she tells you.
The latch is off. She has set out two forks.
On the tag
Her hair
long black braid
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'7"
Build
athletic
Off shift
cardamom sugar, dessert wine, night prep, caramel, alley doors
