Beans or frejoles are a great side dish and I often enjoy them with rice and a steak. In some cases, however, beans are the star of the show as in the Tacu Tacu. The key to making flavorful beans is to season them with a sofrito. This recipe is my own, and for simplicity I use canned pinto beans. Read more →
Dinner at Chez Panisse
When I moved to the Bay Area a decade ago, I was a recent college graduate and I lived in the Berkeley Hills just a few blocks from the famous Gourmet Ghetto. I used to get lunch at the Cheese Board Pizza, and my afternoon cafe con leche at the original Peet’s Coffee, but whenever I walked past the wood… Read more →
Semana Numero 13
Got Inca Kola on a hot summer day in San Francisco? While other kids grew up on Coca-Cola and Pepsi, we grew up on this. Fortunately, all it takes is a bike ride to Evergreen Market on Mission St. to get me some. Read more →
Deep Fried Challenged
I’d like to think that I can cook almost any Peruvian dish, specially ones that truly inspire me or make me salivate at the mere thought of eating them. But I recently realized that I am deep fried challenged, that is, I can’t bring myself to deep fry anything. Read more →
Peruvian Food Documentary Wins Best Foreign Film Award
This week I was delighted to learn that another documentary about Peruvian food was awarded a prize. “Mistura, The Power of Food” is a short film about the Mistura food festival in Peru and it received Best Short Foreign Documentary at the International Family Film Festival in Hollywood, CA. Read more →