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Pleasures By Marc Kristal
If you visit Peru, your guide will undoubtedly tell you certain things, many of them food-related. You’ll discover that there are, thanks to the 28 microclimates, some 3000 varieties of potato grown in the nation. That the distinctive Peruvian gourmet corn, with kernels nearly the
size of incisors, is raised in a specially demarcated region similar to the ones set aside for growing top-grade Cuban tobacco and grapes for champagne. That Puno’s rain forests produce the best organic coffee in the world, and pisco, the incomparable national beverage, was developed by Italian
immigrants who were trying to distill a Peruvian variant of grappa. And that there are roughly 5000 Chinese restaurants in the country, and chifa, as the cuisine is called, is Peru’s most popular food.
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