HUNGRY GERALD

HG/BSK’s family (gifted daughter Lesley R., her husband, Profesore Massimo R; HG/BSK’s spectacular granddaughter, Sofia  R.) came for dinner last night. The generous group brought a fabulous Chinese feast from Chengdu Taste restaurant (Providence). Foods included wontons in hot (blazing) sauce; crystal shrimp dumplings ; pork soup dumplings; ma po (silky bean curd, ground pork, hot sauce) stew; eggplant; string beans; pork belly; fish prepared in two ways. Big container of white rice. Poor Massimo. He swallowed a wonton drenched in blazing sauce. Like many Europeans,he has a problem eating heavily spiced foods. The wonton was a flamethrower.   A glass of ice cold milk cured him. He managed to do justice to a carrot cake dessert.