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Old City Pizzeria 23 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
Once upon a time there were five singing maidens living on a flowered island in the sea who lured mariners to their death on the rock. We know them (at least any of us who’ve studied classic literatur...
Trujillo, Remastered 21 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
Continuing with our little vacation remix cycle, this last weekend we hit the north of Peru with Trujillo and Calamarca taking center stage. There was less new here, given that I’ve been to that part ...
Trailblazer 19 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
Molecular Gastronomy is not a cuisine. It is a collection of cooking techniques. Like boiling, roasting etc. These are very contemporary cooking techniques that have developed over the past 20 years ...
Iquitos, Remixed 14 Aug 2013 | 11:10 pm
I wasn’t back 24 hours before I was in the kitchen, cooking up a reinterpreted dinner of all the various things that we encountered while in Iquitos, Peru last month. In fact, that’s going to be the s...
La Paz, Out…. 13 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Just a round-up of last thoughts and images from La Paz. Let’s see, several people have asked me if I recommend going there. The answer is, yes, but with some caveats. First off, in the city, unless y...
La Paz Eats 10 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
I’m not going to do little mini restaurant reviews of everywhere I ate, though I will mention where I ate things – I thought it might be more interesting overall to just look at the kind of things I a...
Touring Outside 7 Aug 2013 | 05:40 pm
Just a quick post today on a couple of spots I visited outside of town. I’d originally just wanted to go to La Valle de la Luna, the Valley of the Moon, in the south, but other han hiring a private ca...
The In Town Tourist 6 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
[Right click on the map and display it on a separate page to see it full size.] Let’s get to the really touristy stuff – I’m going to do one post on the things in-town, and another on the couple of t...
To Market, To Market… 6 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
A quintet of markets and one street fair for your reading pleasure. All the major markets in La Paz proper seem to be located around the center of town, I suppose that’s somewhat logistical – prior to...
Spawn of World’s Best 4 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
Being realistic is sometimes, not always, a good thing – flights of fancy or fantasy are just fine as well. The reality is, however, I will probably never eat at Noma, the much touted world’s best on ...
