A look at local food discoveries, whether it’s a particular dish or an ingredient, often with one or more recipes.
Oh, I don’t even know where to begin this one…. Hmmm, let’s start with last day in Trujillo before heading to the mountaintop to visit Henry’s dad. We had lunch at Coquito’s, a popular seafood place in the northeast of the city: Henry and I invited out three of his sisters for lunch and we… Read More Run For/From The Hills!
All over the world there’s been this recent incursion of high end Peruvian cooking – either reworkings of traditional dishes to make them more elegant and refined, or fusing them with, usually, Asian ingredients or presentations. We do some of our own with our Mediterranean fusions and we’ve been talking about doing more of that,… Read More Upper Crust Trujillo Cooking
I had to put my foot down about hanging around the house “visiting”. Enough is enough already, and Henry’s here for the next month, he can do more visiting after I head out early next week. So we got out and about for a portion of the day yesterday. Though, first, of course, we had… Read More The Hidden Museum
We’ll see how much there is to post about on this visit back to Trujillo, Peru. For those who’ve been with me awhile and want a refresher, or those who’ve not and want an introduction, Henry and I are visiting his family for a week, followed by a couple of days to the mountaintop village… Read More Thrice, Trujillo
Into every tour must come a cloud or two, in addition to all the bright sunshine, and in Iquitos, with the regular rains, they do come. So one of the things we’d specified in arranging the tour was that if we were going to visit one of the indigenous villages, we weren’t interested in a… Read More The Yawn Factor
“Belén District is one of thirteen districts of the Maynas Province. Belen (spanish for “Bethlehem”) exists at the edge of Iquitos, in the floodplain of the Itaya River (a tributary of the Amazon), and consists of 65,000 inhabitants, most of them poor, and many of whom live in extreme poverty, without electricity, none with clean… Read More The Belén Market
Greetings from Iquitos, Peru, out in the Amazon basin, where we will have limited internet access for the next week. It may seem like all our days are dedicated to food, and it certainly plays a big part, but we do a lot of other stuff too. For our last day in Lima, however, it… Read More Food Day
Since we’re about to head out on a month long vacation, the only dinners for July are the ones we just held this week. A bit of a Peruvian theme to the evenings, just getting ourselves in the mindset for where we’re headed… Started off with our ever popular roasted beet causa – sans the… Read More July Dinners, Wrap-Up