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Typical Amazon foods
From left to right: A soup that I forgot to ask about, 2 sizes of Tacu Tacu con saltado de cecina (rice and bean stew, normalmente served with egg and fried plantain. In this case, in stead of egg it had a type of cured meat), empanada de yuca (yuca is a tuberous shrub that grows in the Amazon. I think of it as an über-potato, extra starchy).
Mistura
September 10th 2011 "Lima: Gastronomic Capital of the World," say the posters in town. Its a brag, of course, but it's not without substance. The restaurant scene in Lima is kicking, full of cebicherías, chifas (chinese-peruvian fusion), parrilleras (grills), anticucherías (grills specialized in anticuchos. See photo) and I've been told it's the home to a number of world-famous chefs. Lima is a cultural
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