Tip to the Left

A Black Minorca rooster with glossy green-black plumage, a large single red comb and white earlobes, seated upright on a low carved wooden bench in a white shirt and a cream mundu with a gold border, a long banana leaf on the red-oxide floor before him laid with rice, curries, pickle, banana chips and salt, a round marigold flower carpet behind him and carved wooden doors open onto coconut palms

Sweet Course Last

The leaf goes down with its tip to the left and the salt in the top corner, and then the dishes come, two dozen of them, in an order nobody in the house would think of changing. The sweet arrives last. He is dressed in white and gold for the wait.

26 August 2026