Friday Fictioneers – Ambience

~ Neil MacDonald
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

What do you mean, ambience? Do I not make a perfect Imam Bayildi? Do you even know what that means? The Holy Man Fainted: that’s the English translation. A dish so delicious the imam fainted when he sampled it. Aubergine stuffed with tomato and onion, slow-braised in olive oil. Delicate and beautiful—a taste of home. One mouthful and you are back among the olive groves on a cedar-scented evening, bright stars pricking the cloth of night. Now this, my love, is ambience you can’t buy. I tell you, the guests will come without any fancy decor.

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Friday fictioneers is a weekly challenge set by Rochelle Wisoff Fields to write a 100-word story in response to a photo prompt. You can find other stories here

41 thoughts on “Friday Fictioneers – Ambience”

  6. your masterful food description was superb and showed you that qulaity food is way more important than space (at times space matters – but most of the time just want the amazing good food)

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  16. This line is perfection: bright stars pricking the cloth of night.

    When I first married my husband I bought the same cookbook in English from the greek market as he had in greek here in the USA. Being that Cyprus was a former British colony all the food stuffs were in British English. Rocket? Aubergine? What is that? Thankfully we have the internet! I attempted Imam Biyaldi because I love the vegetables, anyone eating mine would have fainted for entirely different reasons. My husband said you don’t start with Imam Biyaldi, it is very difficult to get it right.

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