That's Me!

The local grocery store has a bakery in house called "Katie's Kitchen" No kidding! They sell hundreds of loaves of white bread each day with my name on each loaf! I am famous in a country where no one knows me, how cool is that! And not famous for wearing a certain kind of clothing or having a cool new watch (BILLIONS of billboard adds here for omega watches, what is that about? Famous people looking sexy over a watch in a country where 90% of the population can't even afford to live in a real house? Give me a break...) but famous for keeping people fed and even warming their hands and stomachs with fresh baked things to eat. That is something to show off, I've never been famous before, and certainly not for keeping people well fed!

It is amazing to see the bakery in action. They have this huge open kitchen, with the bakery workers buzzing around taking things out of ovens and putting them on those big industrial cooling racks and the like. Then half the workers stand in front of a scale, and a very long line forms-called a "queue" where all the customers stand to tell the workers what they want to buy. These loaves of bread are stacked in a wall of baskets where people can help themselves, but they still have to stand in the queue to have the bread put into a bag and weighed, then the scale prints out a sticker with the price and that is stuck to the bag. You can request that your loaf be sliced for free, but of course that would have mutilated my name so I opted for the whole piece of soft white deliciousness to remain in tact.

Bread isn't the only thing sold at Katie's, you can buy donuts (not as good as in the states), savory things like chilly filled tarts, sweet pastries and eclaires and hot dog or hamburger buns. Standing in front of Katie's Kitchen made me feel good all over. As if I alone were responsible for the line up of customers waiting to be fed by the home baked goodies in the baskets and on the tables.