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Eat Smart in Peru
How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
ISBN 0-9641168-0-4
$13.95 paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2006Joan Peterson & Brook Soltvedt
Menu
About the Book
This smartly designed culinary travel guidebook is never out of date. It opens up the world of Peruvian food to travelers, including students studying abroad, and tells how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences there.
The authors share the secrets they’ve uncovered while hunting for something good to eat—from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce—to allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. The book also includes recipes from some of the finest chefs in Peru.
As you know, food is one of the first and most immediate contacts a traveler makes with a foreign country. Travelers to Peru can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use Eat Smart in Peru, one of the guides in the award-winning EAT SMART series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn’t have to be gastronomical guesswork.
Also available: culinary guidebooks to the cuisine of Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco and India.
About the Authors
Joan Peterson loves to travel and loves to eat. These two loves led to the creation of the EAT SMART series. Each book is designed for travelers and cookbook lovers like herself who want to get to the heart of a country's culture through its cuisine. To date she has written guides to the cuisines of Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco and now India. She has traveled extensively for many years, and has led culinary tours to Morocco and Turkey. She is a founding member of CHEW (Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin) and is the director and founder of the Travel Publishers Association.
Brook Soltvedt has traveled vicariously by editing the EAT SMART series. This is the first culinary travel guide she has co-authored.
Praise for Eat Smart in Peru
"Intricately Researched Culinary Guide
...Eat Smart in Peru will appeal to anyone who is curious about new culinary discoveries and wants to either travel to Peru or incorporate new recipes into their cooking repertoire."
—The Rebecca Review
"A superb introduction and guide for tourists and business travelers when dining, cooking, and eating in Peru
Knowledgeably compiled and expertly co-authored by Joan Peterson and Brook Soltvedt, Eat Smart In Peru: How To Decipher The Menu, Know The Market Foods, And Embark On A Tasting Adventure is a superb introduction and guide for tourists and business travelers when dining, cooking, and eating in Peru. Providing readers with an excellent reference for all connoisseurs of hearty and healthy South American cuisine, Eat Smart In Peru contains helpful advice and resources for eating and drinking in a number of local areas of Peru, enabling the visitor to experience foreign foods and knowing what they are, unlocking secrets of Peru's exotic menus and markets with two bilingual glossaries, and how to get to the heart of the culture through their culinary arts. The newest addition to the "Eat Smart" travel guides, Eat Smart In Peru is enthusiastically recommended to all visitors of Peru, especially those searching for a reliable, portable Peruvian travel and food guide. "
—Midwest Book Review
"Excellent
This latest title in the Eat Smart series helps travelers decipher menus and shop in the lively markets of Peru. There are so many options for visitors throughout the country, this book is the definitive guidebook for enjoying Peruvian cuisine. Includes tips on shopping in markets, a menu guide, helpful phrases and a list of helpful resources."
—Ron Mader, Planeta.com founder
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Cuisine of Peru
An historical survey of the development of Peru's cuisine.
- Early History through Pre-Inca Civilizations
- The Inca
- The Spaniards
- The African Salves
- The Asians - Chinese and Japanese
- Novoandino (New Andean) Cuisine
Regional Peruvian Food
A quick tour through the Peruvian kitchen and around the country to see the variations of cooking styles encountered.
- Peruvian Food in a Nutshell
- The Regions of Peru
- The North coast
- Lima and Environs
- the South Coast
- The Andes
- The Jungle
Tastes of Peru
A selection of delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes to try before leaving
home.
Shopping in Peru's Food Markets
Tips to increase your savvy in both the exciting outdoor food markets
and modern supermarkets.
Resources
A listing of stores carrying hard-to-find Peruvian foods, travel agencies offering culinary tours, and groups offering opportunities for person-to-person contact through home visits to gain a deeper understanding of the country, including its cuisine.
- Online Suppliers of Peruvian Foods
- Some Useful Organizations to Know About
Helpful
Phrases
Phrases in English transliterated to Spanish, with additional phonetic interpretation, which will assist you in finding, ordering and buying foods or ingredients.
- Phrases for Use in Restaurants
- Phrases for Use in Food Markets
- Other Useful Phrases
Menu Guide
An extensive listing of menu entries in Spanish (with some Quechua), with English translations, to make ordering food an easy and immediately rewarding experience.
Foods
and Flavors Guide
A comprehensive glossary of ingredients, kitchen utensils and cooking methods in Spanish (with some Quechua), with English translations.
Restaurants
Chefs at these eateries taught us much about Peruvian Food.
Bibliography
Index
Ordering Information
Eat Smart in Peru
ISBN 0-9641168-0-4
Paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2006
$13.95 + free shipping via US Media Mail. For international orders, please call 608-233-5488 or email about shipping costs.
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