
Artist's commentary
Chocolate Dates
A Valentine's Day gift from Zenobia.
It consists of an assortment of dried date palm fruit, i.e. dates (266kcal per 100g) coated with slightly bitter (approximately 50% cacao) chocolate. Just as Zenobia herself is a mix of intense earnestness and bold clothing choices, these dates are a harmonious balance of sweet and bitter flavor profiles. No fancy ornamentation here; what you see is what you get, and what you get is delicious.
Naturally, they're all completely handmade. The way she procured her ingredients, reserved the kitchen ahead of time, focused on the task at hand, worked quickly and efficiently without adding any malicious touches, and left her workspace cleaner than she found it all served as a model few other Servants could hope to match.
The only trouble she ran into was when a certain shadow prefect attacked her, mistakenly thinking she was wearing nothing but an apron.