"We knew the time had come to create something wondrous with pickles," Sam Bompas, one half of gin-cloud generating, wedding cake-exploding culinary masters Bompas & Parr, tells Wired.co.uk. The pickle has been overlooked for too long.
Bompas is relaying the story of how the Gherkin Chandelier -- a gherkin-powered piece of lighting with an eerie glow akin to the Grinch lit up at Christmas -- came to be.
"Thinking about the development still gives me goosebumps. Risking death to explore an everyday sultan of savour!"
You might not associate gherkins with imminent death, but it takes rather a lot of energy to light up one gherkin, let alone a rather striking chandelier filled with them.
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Bompas is relaying the story of how the Gherkin Chandelier -- a gherkin-powered piece of lighting with an eerie glow akin to the Grinch lit up at Christmas -- came to be.
"Thinking about the development still gives me goosebumps. Risking death to explore an everyday sultan of savour!"
You might not associate gherkins with imminent death, but it takes rather a lot of energy to light up one gherkin, let alone a rather striking chandelier filled with them.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.co.uk ...