Pollo a la brasa — golden, garlicky chicken roasted on a spit — is a staple across Latin America. To those of us up north, the best known bird is the Peruvian version: crisp-skinned and tender-fleshed, often accompanied by a bright green cilantro-chile sauce. You don’t need a spit to make my oven-based recipe. You…
Hundreds of tourists were stranded near Machu Picchu, Peru’s most-visited site, over the weekend after demonstrators blocked railway and bus routes to the site and shut down local shops and restaurants in Aguas Calientes, the gateway to Machu Picchu, in the country’s Cuzco region. Some visitors posted videos on social media pleading for help. The…
The origin story of one of Peru’s most popular desserts is almost as romantic as its name — suspiro a la limeña, or “the sigh of a lady from Lima.” More than a century ago, the story goes, the wife of the poet José Gálvez Barrenechea made him a custard similar to dulce de leche…
