THE MEETING OF ANCIENT CUISINES

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THE MEETING OF
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Latin America’s most important food fair opens soon!
From September 2 to 11, around 400,000 local and
foreign visitors will gather at the 9TH Mistura fair on
the Costa Verde in Lima’s Magdalena del Mar district.
This unique fair includes a variety of regions and different actors that make up Peru’s
gastronomy — street food vendors, rustic country foods, restaurants, holes-in-the-wall,
popular confectioners, bakers, and producers of pisco and chocolate. Mistura is a true
fiesta of all that is Peruvian, where you’ll enjoy Peru’s best foods and the most iconic
cultural traditions.
Added to this mixture of national flavors, this year
we have new attractions — a varied selection of the
world’s ancient cuisines will be sharing their culture
and the flavors and aromas of their traditional dishes.
Mexico, India and Morocco will lead this facet, joining
in the fiesta with some of the world’s and Peru’s most
outstanding chefs, who will be giving master classes
and free cooking demonstrations.
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The Grand Market, located in the heart of the fair, will
host more than 300 farmers from all over Peru who will
be bringing the best of their crops. The special theme
this year will be legumes, to honor the International Year
of Legumes. Peru’s most famous cooks and the best
regional cooks will prepare exquisite dishes with the
produce brought straight from the field by the farmers
themselves. Some of the dishes that will shine include
lima beans, chickpeas and other beans in stews, hot
spices and pickles.
The Teresa Izquierdo prize will bring together women with small cooking
enterprises from around Lima and the outlying areas of Huacho, Huaral, Cañete,
Huarochirí, Supe, Barranca, Pativilca and Sayán — all areas well-known for their
proverbial foods such as spicy duck stew, tamales, seafood cebiches, shrimp in
hot cebiche sauce, or barbecued pork.
Mistura offers many attractions this year,
including the Pisco Pavilion, shops selling
handcrafted Peruvian food products, as
well as a wide range of foods such as
cebiches, regional cuisines and barbecues
and grills.
Mistura 2016 holds contests to award prizes to the best young cooks and pastry makers, and an
inter-school contest. There are also competitions between artisan fishermen to discover which
makes the best seafood dish.
Come and enjoy Mistura, the meeting point of the greatest variety of Peru’s food,
folklore, handcrafts and cultural expressions, and much more!
Tickets on sale through Teleticket at Wong and Metro stores.