Chocolate Milk

Chocolate milk is already a marriage, which is why it belongs on this menu whole. Cacao is the dark heart-opener, the bittersweet medicine the old ceremonies used to crack the chest and let the blood feel again. Milk is the first thing any of us tasted, merging love at the breast, satisfaction before we had a word for wanting.

Put them together and you get the one drink that is erotic and innocent at once. The grown body and the original body, drinking from the same glass.

Shame lives in the gap between those two. It tells you that what nourishes cannot also arouse, that the holy and the hungry keep separate rooms. Chocolate milk says they were always the same kitchen. Eros that remembers it began as feeding loses its embarrassment and keeps its sweetness.