PERU TRAVEL by MAVA TRAVEL

CULINARY TOUR: PERUVIAN GASTRONOMY

The Peruvian kitchen

is considered to be one of the most varied and rich of the world. Thanks to the inheritance pre incaica, incaica and to the Spanish, African, Chinese - Cantonese, Japanese and Italian immigration. Principally until the XIXth century, it assembles mixes and adopts local customs gastronomy and exquisite flavors of four continents, offering an incomparable and impressive variety of dishes of Peruvian culinary art in constant evolution, impossible to enumerate them in its entirety. It is enough to mention that only on the Peruvian coast, there are more than two thousand different soups. It is of knowledge in the whole world that the Peruvian kitchen has found already a space inside the most recognized of the world. Recently it has been published in English, in the site Epicurious's web, an important article about the kindness and the importance of our kitchen. We reproduce part of the publication: “As they say, everything ancient has turned in newly. And in case of Peru, when we say "old man" we refer to ancient. One of the examples of how our chefs are looking at the Andean roots, is the novel use that is given to the quinua, a grain that goes back to the Incas, with a light flavor to nut and 3000 years of antiquity, so called well " wonderful food ", goes down in carbohydrates and rich in proteins. Any person, who does Tourism in Peru, is immediately conquered by the culinary wealth, and if it is a gourmet, always it will look for the excuse to return and to be delighted by some new flavor for his demanding palate..