With a Little Help From Our Friends

Preparing a vegetable tagine with layers of sweet potatoes, onions, olives, tomatoes, all to be stewed in a thick sauce seasoned with cumin, coriander and saffron.

Thanking Octavio again with a "dinner box" to keep him going through the label design process: pounded basmati rice pilaf, tomato curry, yogurt, pickled lemons and chili peppers, onion relish.

A heaping platter of whole wheat couscous and broccoli with bay scallops was but a tiny token of our appreciation for all of Octavio's help with chutney labels!

The label designer rests after a long day in front of the computer.

Cafe Drake friend and upstairs neighbor Octavio luckily happens to also be a swell graphic designer, as you can see from the labels created for The D P Chutney Collective. Thanks, Octavio!!