There are over 800 varieties. Although at the restaurant, we’ll have a mere eight.’ Peru has long been hailed as one of the great food cultures, not just of South America, but the world too.

These days, it is growing increasingly hard to get a bad meal in Lima, which is in the midst of a culinary awakening akin to California’s embrace of local bounty in the 1970s. In Peru, chefs ...

Alpaca Alpaca which is loved in Japan is also edible in Peru. When I stopped by a cafeteria where there was only one in a small village in a lonely small village on a plateau over about 4000 m ...

Tiradito is raw fish cut thin and long like sashimi and covered in a rich sauce. iStock PLATE UP I get it: you thought I was going to do ceviche. And yes, that is Peru's most famous dish, and it's ...