Vertical and Horizontal

There are two ways to do this exercise:  "vertical" and "horizontal" and I am thinking of a timeline here.  The vertical way is to invite 50 people to a tasting, put all the foods on the buffet at once along with some tiny soup bowls, and sample a bit of each.  The horizontal way is to prepare a batch of each ingredient, freeze them all in one-ounce quantities, and then take out 8 - 12 assorted cubes every day and heat them all in a microwave oven.  We're going to do both.  Horizontal first, as we perfect preparation of each individual ingredient.  When we're ready, then we have the party!