We started our recent September business dinner with pisco sours, a Peruvian cocktail made with aguardiente distilled from fermented grapes. The main course included potatoes and chicken, staples in Peru (along with guinea pig, which no one had the courage to prepare). To finish, we enjoyed a Peruvian jelly-roll cake filled with beach plum jelly, a Long Island embellishment.
The meal was inspired by Peconic Bay member Liala Strotman, who recently returned from a vacation in Peru, and our guest, Susan Smith, who visited Peru several times while she lived in Ecuador years ago to teach English.
Peconic Bay often plans country-themed dinners, for which member Barbara Pierce provides country stats on birth rate, infant mortality, fertility rate and literacy. The numbers tell something about the status of women in a particular country. Here’s a sampling of country stats from around the world. (Think of the cuisines we have explored!)
birth rate infant mortality fertility rate literacy
(births/1,000) (deaths/1,000 live births) (children born/woman) (% over 15 read, write)
Total Male Female Total Male Female
China 13.71 21.16 19.43 23.08 1.77 90.9 95.1 86.5
Italy 9.18 3.38 3.59 3.16 1.39 98.4 98.8 98
India 22.22 30.15 34.61 25.17 2.72 61 71.8 50.5
Liberia 37.25 74.52 78.96 69.95 5.13 57.5 73.3 41.6
Mexico 20.04 19.01 20.91 17.02 2.37 91 92.4 89.6
Peru 18.28 19.59 21.79 17.29 2.18 94.5 97.3 91.7
U.S. 13.68 5.98 6.64 5.3 2.06 99 99 99
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