1. cold
2. expensive
3. home.
But of course i return with grand stories of Peru, where I saw lots of interesting things and interesting people and eating loads of good food. There are way too many stories to tell, so let's break it up into little bite sized chunks......starting with the food.
Peruvian food differs greatly depending on which part of the country you're in, but i always found something to love. For starters, the desserts were really amazing.
And quite cheap too, most of the meals we ate were sub US$10. That green creme brulee (made from coca leaves, of cocaine fame) cost around US$3. The white mousse is made from lucuma, which is a sort of tropical fruit which tastes a bit like a blander passionfruit.
The main courses too were pretty unique, and were either of new hitherto untasted animals, or existing ones in new combinations with different herbs and spices.
Chicken curry with pineapples and other sweet fruit. Very curious. Very nice.
Lobster soup!!!!! Enough said.
But wait! what's that in the other dish behind the lobster? hmm. None other than one of the typical peruvian foods:
Guinea pig.
Nice and fluffy, run around the kitchen eating greens, taste good when roasted in a sort of fatty chicken with a skin resembling pork sort of way. If you get over the guilt.
If you get over the guilt of that, there's of course always alpacca.
Nice and fluffy, hair makes good coats, tastes good with garlic and supposedly quite healthy. Alpacca is to beef what Ostrich is to chicken.
And then of course...
naaaaaah. never.
