Posts Tagged ‘Peru’
From the Heights of Machu Picchu…
I have nothing against the other wonders of the world, but if they don’t involve an exhausting, stunning, rainy, and breathtaking (watch that altitute!) hike to reach ‘em, then forget it: I prefer Machu Picchu. Nothing felt so deserved as the glorious, sunshine day my sister and I walked onto ...
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), ...
