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Ends 1/31/21 ll JANUARY - CHICAOREADER 3 FOOD & DRINK RACHELHAWLEY While the water burbles, I rummage in the cab- inet for a blue ceramic teapot and two teacups mind. “Winter is coming,” I found myself pro- with saucers. Once the water is done boiling, claiming wildly to my husband, unabashed that I pour a bit into the teapot, swish it around to I sounded like an extra from Game of Thrones. warm the inside, then pour the plain water into “We have to strategize how we’re going to the teacups to warm them too. I fi sh a tea bag survive this season!” I began to research out of a drawer, something herbal and without snowshoeing. I bought wool socks. I vowed to ca eine so I don’t keep myself up worrying half haul myself out of the house every day to walk the night, and plunk it into the teapot, covering outside, no matter the weather. it with steaming water. I pour the hot water Enter: oyatsu. I say oyatsu because it is the from the teacups into the sink and use it to word that is most familiar to me. Oyatsu (some- scrub a few spots of grime away. times called osanji) is an Edo-period word re- The smell of peppermint and ginger winds ferring to what was then considered the eighth its way out of the pot. I place it and the teacups hour of the day, around 2-3 PM, when people onto a brightly patterned tray next to a plate would break to eat a light meal to tide them with whatever cookie I decided looked interest- over till dinner. As a child in Japan, I was raised ing at Devon Market. Last week it was a sleeve to follow this practice, eating breakfast, lunch, of fudge-covered Oreos, on sale near the en- and dinner without snacks in between, only the trance of the store, wedged between gallons of designated 3 PM break for something sweet. Of vegetable oil and boxes of Medjool dates. This INDOOR DELIGHTS course, the practice of taking a break midday week, it’s a sort of Ja a cake-digestive hybrid, for something hot to drink and delicious to nib- a crumbly, wheaty biscuit wearing a shiny cap ble is hardly unique to Japan. There is fi ka and of orange-flavored chocolate. The energetic, Giving myself a break: khavi and tea time and merienda. One winter sky-blue box informs me the cookies are Lithu- my mother went to Finland and came back with anian. I carry the tray into the living room and on oyatsu stories of a deeply snowy country where people meet my husband, who has just turned o his of all ages stopped what they were doing to own computer. We sit for 30 minutes and chat How a snacking ritual makes the Chicago winter bearable drink dark, bitter coffee and eat sugary pas- about nothing in particular, sipping tea and tries. She explained that it was a way