Love and Sticky Date Pudding

I wanted to share a previous blog but I can't find the entry anywhere (I believe it was on a web site that no longer exists). John Peters will be buried in Austrey, England, today and this was one of his favorite pieces that I wrote. I have copied it from the original Word file:

On my second trip to Australia, I was in a Melbourne restaurant with several friends for dinner when one of them, an Australian, went with me to pick out a dessert. There was this gloppy mess of a cake and I asked Susan what it was. “Oh, that’s very Australian,” she said. “It’s sticky date pudding.” As she would later say, it’s mostly made up of butter and sugar (plus some dates). While looking quite like a messy cake, and obviously very sticky, it’s a wonderful dessert that I easily fell in love with.