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Nibbling anticuchos, skewered street food, Cusco, Peru photo

Call me “Captain,” because I’m eating beef heart

July 17, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Travel Stories

Marinated, char-grilled skewers of cow heart schmeared with hot pepper sauce, bought from a smoke-shrouded street food vendor. If that vision of Peruvian anticuchos doesn’t get your lips smacking, you may not be ready for this.

A rush of customers, Cafe Tostado, Lima, Peru

A misorder of a magnitude to be reckoned with

April 4, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru, Travel Stories

Café Tostado doesn’t look like much from the outside. Indeed, it looks like nothing from the outside. Just a dark, empty, doorwound in a whitewashed cement facade, like so many other storefronts in Lima’s Barranco district. No clouds of drool-inducing…

El Chinito's chicharrón sandwich, Lima, Peru by Lauren Girardin

Shocking sandwich smackdown in Lima

March 29, 2012 · by Lauren · in Food, Peru

Think of Peruvian food and you’re likely to conjure food porn fantasies of tart ceviche or steamy lomo saltado. But, in Lima at least, Peruvians are gaga for sandwiches, day or night, eaten at mealtime or in between bar-hopping stops….

Chi-town’s abundant meat tubes

July 19, 2008 · by Lauren · in Philadelphia, Travel Art

Wrigley, Cubs 3, San Francisco Giants 1 | Art by Todd Berman Much love from Chi-town, home of abundant meat-tubes, be they bratwurst, hot dogs, or polish sausages – they are served with love.

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