Culinary Magic Arts

For the last couple of weeks, two of my colleagues have been very busy. Tomorrow the auditors will arrive. They are prepared, they are organised enough to take on the most stringent inspection.
This afternoon I made a batch of date scones to take for tomorrow’s morning tea. They love date scones. I reckon they will need the sustenance – a sugar high should float anyone through spreadsheets and columns of figures (or whatever they do at audits). It’s the answer to everything. “You’re sad – eat”, “You’re stressed – eat”, “You are about to meet your future mother in law –eat” “You are going to an interview for CEO – eat”.
This got me thinking, perhaps the financial crisis could have been averted if there had been more access to comfort food in the lofty towers of Wall Street. You have to admit, major decisions are always easier during or after a sugar high. Maybe if Alan Greenspan had been offered date scones with his coffee, he wouldn’t have given such lousy financial leadership for so long. Lehmann Brothers should have served cupcakes at their board meeting. Complementary macarons could have made traders fingers even stickier at the New York Stock Exchange.
There is no science to this theory, but it beats into a meringue a few of the others I’ve read about.