HUNGRY GERALD

The time is mid-afternoon. HG is busy in his office–writing, reading, plotting financial strategy, etc. And then, a period of pleasure. BSK appears, bearing HG a cup of steaming tea. BSK knows how to brew a potent, life enhancing “cuppa.”  BSK learned how to brew tea from two English women (Of, course)–BSK’s mother and grandmother. HG’s afternoon- tea has another layer of pleasure—sips of tea and nibbles of chocolate “cigars”.  These delicate cookiês are feather light–a layer of thin pastry enclosing a puree of fragrant chocolate. These delicacies are a gift to HG from Maiko Sakamoto Freeman, SJ’s wife and partner in their Tokyo izakaya. The “cigars” are from the Yoku Moku shop in Tokyo–enclosed in a tin box and swathed in layers of pleated paper. They stay fresh for years.