This post is about FOOD! There is lots to say about Peruvian food, from 2500 varieties of potatoes to omnipresent Chinese restaurants. Here are a few pictures:
This is a really large amount of food!!!! Audra (in pink) and I shared -- with lots of leftovers --the pachamanca you see in front of her, but it really is for one person. In addition to three kinds of meat (no guinea pig, although it was served there) there were several kinds of potatoes, fava beans, and a sweet corn mush inside the corn husk wrappings. The drink you see is "purple chincha," and there was also a "fermented yellow chincha" at the other end of the table.
A Peruvian potato dish: served at a local restaurant with a Veggie Tales tablecloth!
Ceviche: raw fish "cured" with lemon/lime juice.
This is a rough and tough tri-vehicle (tee-hee!) seen on the streets of Huancayo on our way to a restaurant.
I don't remember the name of this fruit, but it's really strange-looking inside! It tasted yummy, though -- one eats the gray seeds and the gelatinous goo surrounding them.
