With every offering, Mother Earth received some candy for her sweet tooth, and a libation, which was poured onto the ground to quench her thirst.
This week's is the splendidly titled The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song, which received some minor festival attention in 2012 before dropping off the radar.
Ms. Pascal said she was already considering writing another book, now that "Sweet Valley Confidential" had received some positive reviews and achieved best-seller status.
"I've always received Akafuku sweets," said Yuko Saito, a first-time visitor here, "and so this time I'd been looking forward to buying some myself and giving them to friends".
The monkeys received the sweets if they touched a black circle on the screen, but they didn't get any if they touched a white diamond.
The children received sweets as well as baseball cards decorated with pictures of the President's dogs, Bo and Sunny.
Which teams received the sweetest seedings and the most favorable regional brackets?
I sent it back and received a sweet apology and ouzo on the house, but the experience rattled me.
Close readers of this column may recall that Fairfax, an insurer, received a sweet $400 million tax benefit through a complex transaction that ran from 2003 to 2006.
"I received the sweetest email from Japan saying 'We love your Titty!' I was once staying at Bank Ground Farm in the Lake District to record an interview for the BBC with Ben Fogle, when two Japanese ladies arrived to stay there.
