I taste it and become a child again.

The first Tschisi samples arrive in Hamburg. At one of the tastings that matters most to me, Britta, her boss Susanne and I are sitting round the table. I can’t remember the exact date. It must have been towards the end of the year.

We share a single ice cream between several people. I think there are six of us. Those first samples are so precious to us then.

The big question is: does it taste like it used to? I taste it, and the memory is there at once: my childhood, that vanilla pudding flavour. A little piece of ice cream, and suddenly so much more.

Susanne Biljes, now Susanne Lutkat, quickly becomes more than a client to me. Something like a friend.