1.   When the burning hot crust of the salt flat began to break under my boots, I knew I was approaching the lowest point in America.

2.   But Johnson probably never dug into a bowl of Irish oatmeal swirled with cranberries, apricots and toasted nuts and topped by a hot sugary crust.

3.   Pour over hot crust and sprinkle evenly with nuts.

4.   Pour over hot crust.

5.   Pour filling over hot crust.

6.   Spread jelly over hot crust.

7.   Spread over hot crust.

8.   Spread hot crust evenly with apricot jam.

9.   The height of the barbecue season is not when anyone wants to hear about the hazards of eating meat with a nicely blackened crust hot off the grill.