Food & Drinks
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Protecting Cusco’s Giant White Corn Seeds
A Peruvian artist once told me that the salty and sweet combination of choclo y queso holds as much culture…
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Romanticism, Exoticism, Falseness, and a Cookbook
It is difficult to live close to the mountain gods and Shane Mitchell doesn’t have a clue, despite finishing his…
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Cusco’s Chuncho Cacao Recognized as One of the World’s Best
Cusco grows some of the world’s finest cacao. That has been known locally but became global knowledge when chocolate made…
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The Feast of the San Jerónimo Patron
Today is a very special day in the district of San Jerónimo. After a great serenade last night where musical…
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Peruvian Coffee Day
Every fourth Friday of the month of August of every year is celebrated as the “national Peruvian coffee day”, This…
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Ceviche a Peruvian Dish that Brings Us Together
Today, June 28, is celebrated the National Day of Ceviche. Declared Peru’s cultural heritage, this gastronomic dish crossed the barriers…
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It is the Octave of Corpus and People Eat Chiriuchu
Already the bells of the Cathedral toll. They are calling and reminding people today the saints will come out from…
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Peru’s Pisco, Distinctive and Unique
The distiller known ’round the world for Peru’s Pisco Porton, Johnny Shuler, is from originally Switzerland, according to his license.…
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Dreams, Migration, and Young Men in Lima
He sat across from me in a Starbucks in Miraflores, Lima, filled with energy, and dreams. Let me call him…
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