Lycia´s Dead Guinea Pig Cafe (finally complete)

Can´t wait till we get back to the US...these bizness ideas of ours are just all ready to boom. You´ve got to look for emerging markets, and when I think of holes in the US restaurant industry, I really see potential in Cuyerias.

Cuyerias seem to be the thing here in the Peruvuan Andes, a town of 800 may have 4 or 5. That´s a more than just a trend folks. The problem is that I just don´t think the word Cuyeria really expreses the emotion you feel when an entire dead guinea pig, head and all, is placed in front of you. I´m not sure if they poke the eyeball out or it just incinerates in the oven, that I must research.

Laugh if you will, at my business savvy, I hear they laughed at both the guy who first introduced sushi to America and the fellow who invented spandex.

The little rats are quite tasty, really. As far as something to compare it too, I´d have to say think of a really tender nutria. Yum. Plus it´s like french fries, you are supposed to eat it with your hands, even at a nice restaurant. When the waiter saw me pick up my fork and knife he looked at me like I drank out of my fingerbowl. It really is convenience food at its best.

Guinea pig seems to translate to all aspects of society too...go too a cheap restauaunt up in the mountains, pay a buck and a half, you can watch them grab one off there kitchen floor, and have it shaved and cooked in just a few minutes. Go to a fancy place in Cusco, they probably do it the same way, but you can´t watch, and they can charge 13. I´m looking to charge 30, but it will probably come with sides, so it'll be fair.

If anybody has a suggestion of a better name, we are not open to new ideas, this one can not be improved upon.

In other food news, I still want a pet lama when we get home, but I doubt I´d let him reach his 2nd birthday before I eat the cute bastard. I had another Alpaca tonight, a sirloin, rare. Lycia had alpaca curry. They are so freaking tasty, as long as you don´tlet Bolivians cook them. I swear I want to ring a box of mac and cheese, some milk and butter to Bolivia next time I am there to see how they would screw it up. They make a really solid white rice, as far as we could tell, that was all.

Anyway, we succesfully gave the middle finger to the corporate bastards at Peru Rail, and gotin the back way, cheap, easy and fun...details coming.

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