Peru Honeymoon

Peruvian food is the world’s original fusion cuisine. Peru dining and drinking have evolved deliciously to reflect Peru’s Spanish and native Quechua heritage, with culinary contributions from China, Japan, Africa, and Europe.

Like Peru's geography, its cuisine spotlights seashore and mountains: seafood from the coast and potatoes and corn from the Andes (3,000+ varieties of spuds are cultivated in Peru).

Peruvian chow is ideal for sharing and comparing with your partner. These highlights beg to be tasted:

• Ceviche, or seafood cooked in citrus juice; a cousin of sashimi
• Tamales and humitas, cornmeal mixed with meat and wrapped in a leaf
• Cancha, or toasted corn kernels, sometimes marble-sized
• Pollo a la brasa, grilled or rotisseried chicken
• Causa, mashed potato with lime and chile
• Seco de cabrito: goat (or other meat) stew
• Chifa, or Peruvian-Chinese food, reminiscent of old-fashioned Cantonese fare
• Nikkei, Japanese-Peruvian food such as “tiradito” sashimi

Peru is not a wine-drinking country. But Peruvians are passionate about their pisco, a clear, distilled liquor similar to grappa or brandy. Young Peruvians are busily rediscovering this heritage drink and its daiquiri-like pisco sour cocktail. Anywhere you travel in Peru, a pisco sour is the thing to order.

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