Archive for December 2007
To Market, to Market in Cusco, Peru!
Let´s not mess around: I love farmers´markets. I’d been in Cusco a day before I’d located its market and set out exploring. When I’m able to upload the photos, you´ll see, as I did, a well-organized market, rich with color and clean as can be, full of the familiar and the new ...
Fruit Fiesta at Cusco’s Market!
Exploring foreign farmers´markets is a great way to learn about a country´s climate, tastes and cooking practices. Cusco´s market, for example, had a lot of apples and grapes, ...
Peruvian Chocolate
I love chocolate. How happy was I to find, in the heart of Cusco, Peru´s indoor market, a row dedicated to towers of the stuff, laid like bricks in a Wonkian fashion up and down an entire row of vendors. I ...
Yell CUY! If you want to eat guinea pigs.
David Sedaris once wrote that to know a country is to know their Christmas traditions and gun laws. To me, you can get ...
lima la linda
Hola de Lima! GrowingChefs is making its debut as a foreign language blog. Ja, ja. I´m happy to report that despite its desert topography and rocky Mars-esque beaches, Lima is a city full of mangos, angels trumpets (that deadly hallucinogen whose nearly foot-long flowers hang demurly like a ballgown skirt), ...
A Visit to Ronnybrook
All my life, I´ve drunk milk instead of water. I drank it at cross-country practice, on hot summer days, even to assuage a mouth dry from salty popcorn. At some point in college–the first time I realized water was free and milk was expensive–I weaned myself off the jug. In ...
Pam of Ronnybrook
Pam is the best part about buying milk and butter in New York. If you time it right, and her sister has visited her already, she ...
Ray Bradley at Market
I met Ray Bradley a while ago, but met him properly this year while working the 97th and Amsterdam Market on the Upper West Side. A wonderful farmer and excellent human being, one ...
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