6/28/2023 0 Comments Sweet bean book![]() ![]() She writes to him and he and the girl go to visit her in the sanitarium. Word gets out about where she lives and she leaves the shop. When he comes in the next day, she is making the paste again because she just couldn’t turn away the customers who showed up while he was out, even making the pancakes which was always his job. One day he is hungover and tells her to make the paste and save it for the next day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The owner of the shop wants her gone from the kitchen and certainly not personally greeting customers. She had contracted Hanson’s Disease (leprosy) as a teenager and was cured though it left her hands gnarled. Trouble comes when it is revealed that the old lady, who had been making bean paste for 50 years, lives in a sanitarium for lepers. One quiet teenage girl strikes up a friendship with the man and the old lady. Soon he gets a following at the stand beyond the usual school girls after they try the dorayaki made with the new paste. It is a very slow method that she teaches him they arrive before dawn and it just read in time for the 11 AM opening. She wins him over by making very, very good red bean paste that is vastly superior to the bean paste-in-a-can he had been using. Translated from Japanese, it is the story of a reluctant dorayaki (a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste) chef who against his initial impulse hires a woman in her mid-70s to help out at the dorayaki stand. I’ve read a few books the last couple of days but Sweet Bean Pasteby Durian Sukegawa was my favorite. ![]()
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