To have a life as sweet as a Honey Pie
Dalam cerpen Honey Pie dari buku After the Quake Haruki Murakami menceritakan tentang dua ekor Beruang Madu, Masakichi The No 1 Honey Bear dan Tonkichi,seekor beruang kuat yang cemburu kepada nya karena Masakichi bisa berbicara dan menghitung uang…sama seperti manusia, Masakichi juga suka mendengarkan musik dan memiliki sebuah boombox yang ia pungut dari jalanan di gunung.
“He listens to music?” Sala asked. “Does he have a CD player or something?”
“He found a boom box lying on the ground one day. He picked it up and brought it home.”
“How come all this stuff just happens to be lying around in the mountains?” Sala asked with a note of suspicion.
“Well, it’s a very, very steep mountain, and the hikers get all faint and dizzy, and they throw away tons of stuff they don’t need. Right there by the road, like, ‘Oh, man, this pack is so heavy, I feel like I’m gonna die! I don’t need this pail anymore. I don’t need this boom box anymore.’ ”
“I know just how they feel,” Sayoko said. “Sometimes you want to throw everything away.”
“Not me,” Sala said.
Seorang penulis muda bernama Junpei, ia sengaja mengarang cerita tentang dua ekor beruang madu kepada Sala, gadis kecil anak dari Sayoko, orang yang ia cintai sejak masih kuliah..namun tak sempat mereka bersatu karena Sayoko akhirnya menikah dengan Takatsuki sahabat Junpei.
“Absolutely. Masakichi lived with people when he was just a cub, and they taught him how to talk and how to count money. Masakichi was a very special bear. And so the other bears, who weren’t so special, tended to shun him.”
“Shun him?”
“Yeah, they’d go, like, ‘Hey, what’s with this guy, acting so special?’ and keep away from him. Especially Tonkichi, the tough guy. He really hated Masakichi.”
“Poor Masakichi!”
“Yeah, really. Meanwhile, the people would say, ‘O.K., he knows how to count, and he can talk and all, but when you get right down to it he’s just a bear.’ So Masakichi didn’t really belong to either world, the bear world or the people world.”
Murakami memang senang membuat kisah-kisah hubungan cinta yang aneh dan ganjil tapi juga mengharukan, seperti kisah seorang manusia yang jatuh cinta kepada Ice Man (ya..ya..manusia salju beneran, bukan perumpamaan) cerpen berjudul “The Ice Man” ini terdapat dalam buku nya yang berjudul Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman juga kisah tentang Junpei dan Beruang Madu nya ini, manis semanis madu…
cerpen dapat dibaca lebih lanjut di sini
sekarang bagaimana kalau kita membuat seloyang Pie Madu hangat untuk “our own honey pie”..hyuukk!

HONEY PIE
INGREDIENTS
* 3 eggs
* 2 cups solid pack pumpkin puree
* 3/4 cup honey
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
* 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
DIRECTIONS
1. Beat eggs slightly in a large bowl. Blend in pumpkin, milk, cream, honey, spices, salt. Pour filling into pie shell. Cover edges of shell with strips of foil.
2. Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Remove foil, and continue baking for 15 more minutes. An inserted knife should come out clean when done. Cool, and serve.
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