If I want to tell you about Peruvian food I should start with Mistura, which is the most important and well known gastronomic fair in Lima. It's name means in Peruvian Spanish "mixture" and it's because for a few days restaurants from different parts of the country get together, to the same place, with their flag dishes. There is a great variety that the organizers divide into sections: a section of sweets, another of tipples, another of seafood...
So you have a lot of stands. You pay with tickets that have their value, like banknotes. They sell them in kits, I could say. It means that it's only possible to pay 25, 50 or 100 soles (one sol, local currency, equal one zloty 20 grosz), although after you can buy only the tickets you need. When you enter crossing below a huge fork, you receive a map of the place. It helps you find restaurants you are looking for.
Of course, the queues used to be quite long, as in the case of the stand with pachamanca. It was the unique one with this dish. It consists of two types of meat you choose between chicken, beef and meat of alpaca that go with broad bean, potato and a sort of cake made with milled, hot corn with raisins enclosed in the leaf of corn. The preparation is very important: it should be made in the ground, ringed with stones. I have to confess that it's still a mistery for me whicha the details of the preparation, I didn't know them at all. You can see the dish and its preparation below.
We also tasted local beer Cusqueña, the tipple Ayahuasca (whose name refers to a strange plant that Peruvian indians use in their medicine rituals) or desserts like queso helado (frozen cheese). We spent a lot of money! But there were an aim in spent it and eat so much... It was that my mother challenged my boyfriend to make me put on weight. The result? They both lost! My genes didn't allow them reach this goal :D
That's all for today. Bye!
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