When he isn’t running a Peruvian ice cream shop cafe on weekends around the corner of Catalpa Avenue in Ridgewood, Jonathan Alvarado works as an anesthesiologist at a veterinary clinic in Manhattan. Dealing with animals, he says, is something he does well. Unexpectedly, making ice cream is also something he does well. After watching the frozen yogurt and ice cream booms pass through the culinary ecosystem, Alvarado said he taught himself how to make ice cream and followed by starting up this shop on the side. Closed during the winter months, Creme & Sugar has just opened its doors for another summer.
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