�y��vlog

Sitting at the bar with her sister, regular Jasmine McWillie said the water crisis wouldn’t stop her from dining out on salmon and shrimp almandine.

Pyrope and almandine garnets can contain spiky inclusions of the minerals rutile or chrysotile, but they are normally more evenly distributed, and they do not curve or reach the crystal’s surface.

On the menu: a green salad with oranges and candied pecans, roast chicken with tarragon, grilled heirloom tomatoes, roasted baby red potatoes, green beans almandine, carrot souffle and chocolate layer cake with vanilla ice cream.

The least successful were the most conventional: Gulf grouper with beurre blanc felt flat; a side of carrots almandine was oddly gritty.

Much of the garnet used as an abrasive is coarse almandine.