Ask Quito!

If you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for on our website please email Quito with your enquiry.

On Ikea’s site you just ask Anna, well at Electric Shadows Bookshop our splendid new canine mascot can solve most literary and film problems and he even has the recipe for our famous parmesan cheese biscuits…

Just send us an email.

• Me and Helen
• Me At work (above)
• Me After Work (left)

We have received our first request...

Dear Quito,

I hope it's OK for me to ask you such a big question, but I have been pondering this topic quite a bit lately and trust that your take on things will broaden my view.

Quito, what is the meaning of life? If that's too difficult, could I please have your recipe for Parmesan biscuits?

Signed Pondering in Alice Springs

And Quito's answer was...

Dear Pondering,

My apologies for not answering your question earlier but Helen and I have been away so I have not checked my email for a few days. Anyway thank you for your question - which is my first one - and as you say it is a big one. But Pondering, I am a dog who is unafraid to tackle the big issues (in fact I get bigger every day) and in order to formulate an answer I have found myself sniffing among the philosophy books at esb, which are curiously close to the cooking books now I think about it…

Anyway I digress. I am still only a young dog and when I was still with my parents I was introduced to the concept of living an authentic life and my mother, who is a poodle of some stature, said to me, “Quito know thyself, find the essential dog within and never act in bad faith”. My father, who is a labradoodle and therefore sometimes a bit confused, said, “Quito, sometimes a dog has got to do what a man should do”. So I found myself pondering this existential advice and I think that the meaning of life might be found at the precise moment when a perfectly baked parmesan cheese biscuit comes out of the oven and is placed precariously on a wire cooling rack and then miraculously tumbles off the table and into the fortuitously open mouth of a patiently waiting recipient. So Dear Pondering I say to you, “Carpe Diem” or better yet “Cheese the Biscuit”.

Yours faithfully,

Quito

PS esb's recipe is attached!

(The file is a PDF which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - free software which may already be on your computer)