For every foodie who ever clapped his or her hands in delight at such alchemy, such hectic prestidigitation, there have been many others who've dismissed it with an oath.
Real lovers of action movies prefer more physical rather than facile flights of fancy, and easy-breezy feats of derring-do blithely achieved through digital manipulation and prestidigitation.
Not so the other piece of prestidigitation in the budget - a return to surplus based on a forecast of a dramatic deceleration in the rise of health-care spending.
