I love this story, @litguru. The ballerina move was spectacular (and the image you created to illustrate that scene is SO cool).

One thing that surprised me was that even though Katya said she didn't like meat or anything remotely meat-like, and he promised he would never concoct a meat look-alike for her again, he still proceeded to make a faux-meat dish for her. But it worked! And he won her over.