Chicharrón for breakfast, there’s nothing like it

Pieces of pork belly, slowly cooked in its own fat. Juicy and with more taste than before the pork is placed in bread with some sweet potato, fresh onion and specks of rocoto chilli. So wrong yet so right.

July 23, 2010 | Lima City Guide, Peruvian Food

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Organic Food in Lima

Healthy, organic and in all cases tasty. Organic options are growing in availability in the gastronomic capital of the Americas.

June 7, 2010 | Lima City Guide, Peruvian Food

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Without Machu Picchu you’ll enjoy the trip of a lifetime

SPECIAL: PERU WITHOUT MACHU PICCHU – Machu Picchu is closed. It will stay that way through all of February at the very least. Do you have your flights booked and are wondering what to do next? Should you cancel or put off your trip to Cuzco?

February 4, 2010 | Travel and Places

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Piura, Mucho Gusto!

Three days of delicious flavours from Piura, as the best restaurants from this northern city, and the region, gather for the first “Perú, Mucho Gusto” gastronomic fair outside of Lima.

December 15, 2009 | News, Peruvian Food, Piura Guide

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Lima pays homage to the delicious anticucho

On the banks of the river Rímac, on the beautiful and historic Alameda de Chabuca Granda with its ageing wooden balconies, in a space often occupied by fairs and special events, Lima today paid homage to the delicious anticucho.

November 29, 2009 | Commentary/Opinion, Modern Peru, Peruvian Food

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Gastronomy is the new driving force for economic development

With the growing economic benefits Peru is enjoying thanks to its cuisine, as demonstrated by a second very successful gastronomic fair hosted in the capital of Lima not long ago, it is little surprise that a recent study by Arellano Marketing has produced figures that back up what is plain to see.

November 22, 2009 | News, Peruvian Food

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Peruvian gastronomy could become world cultural heritage

Thanks to its extreme biodiversity and the history of cultural mixing, Peru’s cuisine is increasingly considered one of the world’s greats. It is for this reason that the government has unveiled plans to make the country’s gastronomy an item of World Heritage in the “culture” category.

September 29, 2009 | News, Peruvian Food

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MISTURA 2009 – II International Gastronomic Fair of Lima

As Peru becomes ever more associated with gastronomy, so too does the now-established gastronomic fair of Lima grow ever larger. This year, despite moving to a far larger venue in the centre of Lima, the second fair of its kind was enveloped by hundreds of thousands of attendees – with many ending up disappointed and unable to get hold of tickets.

What’s all the fuss about?

September 28, 2009 | Lima City Guide, Peruvian Food

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Food business taking off in Peru [Featured]

Rich or poor, Peruvians pride themselves on eating well. Fast food is frowned upon and a poorly-prepared platter is seldom tolerated.

Strange in a country where a quarter of children still suffer from malnutrition but Peru’s sharp inequality is one of its many paradoxes. It is one of the 10 countries in the world classed as ‘mega-diverse’ in terms of its biodiversity, which means in nutritional terms it is rich beyond measure.

September 27, 2009 | Peruvian Food

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Quinoa ‘risotto’ blends traditions of Peru, Italy [Featured]

Marlena Spieler writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Andean “grain” called Quinua (Quinoa), and cooking the indigenous food with an Italian twist.

A while ago I popped in to visit James Shenk at his Peruvian restaurant, Destino, in San Francisco. He had promised to teach me how to make a quinoa dish I had tasted at his restaurant.

Entering the kitchen, I found James deep in thought, rubbing his hands together. Was he excited about something? Was he cold? I peered closer and saw that in his hands were tiny seed-like grains, and he was rotating them in a circular motion.

May 16, 2009 | Peruvian Food

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Who Needs Clubs When Everyone Is at the Cafe? [Featured]

The New York Times recently ran this article about Lima’s cafe and restaurant scene, featuring Gastón Acurio’s La Mar, Sonia’s, and trendy Barranco’s most popular haunts. The first part can be read here

April 24, 2009 | Peruvian Food

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Eating in Lima – What not to miss – Desserts

Part six of what not to miss when eating in Lima.
To say that Peruvians have a sweet-tooth is like saying that fish enjoy being in water. It’s plainly clear and a huge understatement! In fact, Peru is one of only two countries in the world for which Coca Cola was forced to change its traditional recipe in order to make any inroads into the market – they had to make the formula sweeter. Many different desserts are enjoyed across the country and many of them are found in Lima, many of them also originating in Lima.

April 15, 2009 | Lima City Guide, Peruvian Food

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