An Old Friend

On Wednesday we visited Sadako Kohatsu. She is the widow of a childhood friend of Olga and her brother and sister - Julio Kohatsu. She still runs the family business and her three kids (that's Yoko below) are seeing how they will make their living. Yoko has studied pastry making in a cooking school of Lima and was very impressed with The Tea Room of New Paltz website.

Yoko Kohatsu

By the way Andres, Andres Kohatsu asked me if you were still reading... It seems they remember you well.

Lima has an incredible array of cooking schools. If I were to say watch out, it would for the acceptance and appreciation of Peruvian cooking in the States. I'll show you some dishes in a later blog entry.

Anyway, here we are sitting in Sadako's dining room enjoying pastries from one of the family bakeries.



Twice since I have been here I have eaten too much; once at a meal when I ate too much at that meal and that night a Sadako's when I had eaten a big meal in the Argentinian restaurant just a few hours earlier. In both cases my stomach got quite upset. The food was fine, just too much. Now I eat much more circumspectly.