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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 ...

From the Heights of Machu Picchu...

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, ...

Fruit Fiesta at Cusco's Market!

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 ...

Peruvian Chocolate

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 ...

Yell CUY! If you want to eat guinea pigs.

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), ...

lima la linda