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Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (born October 30, 1967) is a Peruvian chef and ambassador of Peruvian cuisine. He owns several restaurants in various countries, and is the author of several books. In Peru, he is the host of a television program and contributes to culinary magazines. [1] [2]
Causa is best described as a sort of mini casserole, with the top and bottom consisting of yellow potato and the filling typically of any white meat. [3] In the ancient Peru, it was prepared with yellow potatoes, which have a soft texture, and kneaded with crushed chilli peppers, although it can also be made with any other variety of potato.
Gaston Acurio, chef [36] Lady Bardales; Analí Cabrera (1959–2011), actress, vedette, and athlete [37] Jorge Chávez, airplane pilot [38] Raúl Chávez Sarmiento, math prodigy, second youngest bronze, silver, gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad; Alicia Delgado, folk singer; Virgilio Martínez Véliz, chef [39]
Gastón Acurio has proposed plates like trucha marinada con blinis de achira, lomo de atún con crema de arracacha and quinua rosada. Achira is a tubercle that comes from the Amazonian forest. It was cultivated and used by pre-Inca cultures like the Chavín, Nasca and Paracas cultures.
A butifarra sandwich at the Bar Cordano.. Among the many types of sandwiches one finds the traditional butifarra, made normally from pork loin cooked in a traditional Limeña manner called locally jamón del país, accompanied with fresh lettuce, salsa criolla, [2] and occasionally a touch of mustard.
[4] [5] While in Europe white dish became a dessert after the Middle Ages (see blancmange), in colonial Peru the stew was combined with indigenous chili peppers to form a savory entrée. Oral histories say it was created by former chefs to the French aristocracy fleeing the French Revolution and finding new employment in the Viceroyalty of Peru ...
Peru is a country that holds not just a variety of ethnic mixes since times ranging from the Inca Empire, the Viceroyalty and the Republic, but also a climatic variety of 28 [9] individual climates. The mixing of cultures and the variety of climates differ from city to city so geography, climate, culture and ethnic mix determine the variety of ...
The National Library of Peru is currently undergoing a modernization program which aspires to turn the library into one of Latin America's most modern libraries. It is located in Lima's San Borja District. After years of financial planning for the new building, the government of Peru financially collaborated to finish the building, along with a ...