Food & drink of Peru · The Larder Journal

Inca, Spanish, African, Chinese and Japanese influences.

Fish 'cooked' in lime juice (leche de tigre).

Stir-fry meeting of Peru and China.

Andean 'mother grain', a complete protein.

An ancient Andean corn beer, once central to Inca ceremonies.

Non-alcoholic purple-corn drink from Peru.

Spec: 60 ml pisco, 30 ml lime juice, 20 ml syrup, 1 egg white, drops of Angostura on the foam.

Chilcano is Peru's easy highball: 50 ml pisco, 15 ml lime, ginger ale, bitters.

Unaged grape brandy. Peru and Chile both claim it; Peruvian pisco is distilled once to proof with no water added.