Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
Born and raised in Peru of a Japanese ancestry that was fully integrated into his upbringing, Mitsuharu Tsumura’s culinary path was fixed to bring together the best of both his worlds. Meals prepared by his mother at home were creole, a mix of Japanese and Peruvian, while his father insisted on eating only the former. […]
(World’s 50 Best Blog, July 2023) Peru took the headlines at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023 in Valencia, officially marking Lima as a food capital that is right at the top of gastronomic travellers’ hit lists. While The World’s Best Restaurant, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Aqua Panna, is Central – the first Latin American restaurant to top the […]
(Drinks International) The South American country has been making waves with its cuisine in recent years. and now drinks producers are getting in on the act, says Sorrel Moseley-Williams. Without a doubt, Peru has been South America’s leading gastronomic force for the past 15 years. A slew of establishments and their culinary leaders dominate global […]
(Good Beer Hunting) When a farmers’ strike in Peru’s Cusco region stops travel into the Sacred Valley, it’s suddenly impossible to reach Cervecería del Valle Sagrado, perhaps the most influential brewery and taproom in the Andes. Unwilling to be branded a scab or run into a crowd of striking farmers, I stay put in my […]
(Topia, April 2022) With three establishments ranked in the top 100 of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021, Peruvian chefs Pía León and Virgilio Martínez are unquestionably the culinary world’s most talented couple; chefs with vision who relish diverse agricultural experimentation with a long-term view. While Virgilio changed Lima’s culinary game by focusing exclusively on Peruvian ingredients […]
(The Essentialist) The World’s Best Female Chef shares some favourite spots in her home city. To read this please check out The Essentialist.
(Fine Dining Lovers) Anointed Latin America’s Best Female Chef three years ago, Pía León now adds the title of world’s best to an impressive CV. Cook, wife, mother and a twin, little stands in the way of the Peruvian chef-patronne of Kjolle restaurant in Lima’s hip Barranco neighbourhood. Today known for an informal approach to fine dining, whose solid […]
(Lugares/La Nación) Ya la habían nombrado la mejor chef femenina de América Latina hace tres años, y ahora suma el título de la mejor chef del mundo, según los premios The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Melliza, cocinera, esposa, madre, peruana, Pía León picó en punta y nadie puede frenar a la dueña de Kjolle, el restaurante […]
(Atlas of the Future) Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland, replicating the efforts of a neighbouring Inca agricultural research centre with a contemporary model in order to improve tuber genetics while collaborating with two indigenous communities. But Virgilio Martínez is doing […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Born to potato farmers in Peru’s Cusco region, Manuel Choqque Bravo’s playground was the fertile Andean land where his family cultivated tubers at 3,740 metres above sea level. He’d while away days in the field, terrorising his younger siblings with strange-looking potatoes such as pumaqmaquin (Quechua for puma’s paw) or snacking on potato leaves and […]