HUNGRY GERALD

A spectacular  Chinese dinner tonight at HG/BSK’s Central Falls, RI, loft. Present were Arianna R. (HG/BSK’s glorious, talented, beautiful granddaughter who BSK/HG have not seen  for many months); gifted daughter, Lesley R.,and her husband, Professor Massimo R. (Ari, Lesley and Massimo will soon leave for Italy and a reunion with HG/BSK lovely granddaughter, Sofia). Ari, like HG, is a passionate fan of Chinese food.  She lives in Colorado and enjoys the scenic state–however, alas, there are no good Chinese restaurants. So, she requested dinner from Chengdu Taste, the gourmet eatery in Providence. Lesley did the ordering and Massimo picked up the food.  Oh, my!! Dumplings, wontons;  hot & sour soup, ma po tofu (HG fave); noodles; cumin lamb, fish –and more  (eggplant and string beans–plus a big bowl of rice). A zillion thanks, Ari, for requesting a Chinese feast. (HG wrote this post days ago. After the Chengdu feast, Arianna, Lesley and Massimo left for the Italian city of Padua and a reunion with Arianna’s sister, Sofia. Later in the week they were joined by HG/BSK’s son, Jeremy, and his son, Haru. The two Tokyo guys are doing an international tour–Istanbul, Italy, etc. It’s a graduation present for Haru and recognition for being accepted at a prestige college. So, it was a big time multi cultural family get together).