“Molecular Gastronomy is not a cuisine. It is a collection of cooking techniques. Like boiling, roasting etc. These are very contemporary cooking techniques that have developed over the past 20 years by understanding the science behind it. … How do you apply these techniques in traditional cooking, to make the food innovative and create an… Read More Trailblazer
I wasn’t back 24 hours before I was in the kitchen, cooking up a reinterpreted dinner of all the various things that we encountered while in Iquitos, Peru last month. In fact, that’s going to be the sort of theme of the next few weeks – a redux from Iquitos, Trujillo and Calamarca, Lima, and… Read More Iquitos, Remixed
Just a round-up of last thoughts and images from La Paz. Let’s see, several people have asked me if I recommend going there. The answer is, yes, but with some caveats. First off, in the city, unless you’re the sort like me who just likes to wander around and see what’s happening in a place,… Read More La Paz, Out….
I’m not going to do little mini restaurant reviews of everywhere I ate, though I will mention where I ate things – I thought it might be more interesting overall to just look at the kind of things I ate while in La Paz. Most of it was traditional, but some was a bit more… Read More La Paz Eats
Just a quick post today on a couple of spots I visited outside of town. I’d originally just wanted to go to La Valle de la Luna, the Valley of the Moon, in the south, but other han hiring a private car as I mentioned yesterday, for $40 (a bit over 200 bolivianos), everything I… Read More Touring Outside
[Right click on the map and display it on a separate page to see it full size.] Let’s get to the really touristy stuff – I’m going to do one post on the things in-town, and another on the couple of things I did outside of the city. I took zillions of pictures, and at… Read More The In Town Tourist
A quintet of markets and one street fair for your reading pleasure. All the major markets in La Paz proper seem to be located around the center of town, I suppose that’s somewhat logistical – prior to the boom in El Alto, everyone from all sides of the city could simply walk or ride downhill… Read More To Market, To Market…
Being realistic is sometimes, not always, a good thing – flights of fancy or fantasy are just fine as well. The reality is, however, I will probably never eat at Noma, the much touted world’s best on one list or another. And whether it is “the” best is irrelevant, it’s obviously up there in the… Read More Spawn of World’s Best