Delta Airlines has made a $100 million minority stake in Brazilian domestic carrier GOL Lihnas, a move that further shakes up South America's airline industry that is dominated by two recent mergers, LAN-TAM and TACA-Aviacna. …
The first review of Gaston Acurio's La Mar in NYC are out. Here's where they have got it right, and wrong. …
Though I don’t need extra incentives to eat Latin American Food, I do wish I was dining at the latin fusion restaurant Nuela a couple of nights ago, and not just because of their arroz con pato.…
It’s about time Gastón! Peruvian celebuchef Gastón Acurio will open a branch of his La Mar Cebicheria in New York sometime between March and May of 2011, as reported by San Francisco Weekly and later confirmed by Peruvian web portal Terra. The 8,000 square foot location is already chosen, on…
For the past few months I have been pushing the NYTimes travel section to do a story on Peruvian chefs in the Amazon, but they had some similar story waiting to run. In last weekends travel section I discovered what that story was. Jay Cheshes, whose food writing I admire…
Living in Peru is reporting (Living in Peru » News » World known cook Ferran Adrià to visit Peru in 2011) via Peru21 that Spanish chef Ferran Adrià of El Bulli will appear at Lima, Peru’s Mistura food festival in September of 2011. El Bulli is set to close for two…
Steven Roll, who writes a great blog about Latin American travel, Travel Ojos, asked me a few months ago to contribute a short story in an ebook project he was working on called Celebrating Latin America at Ground Level. I'm happy to say that the free book has been released…
Lima, Peru's famed seafood restaurant La Rosa Nautica, which is set on a pier that extends a hundred meters from the city's shore into the Pacific ocean, is opening its second restaurant in Bogota, Colombia.The restaurant should be open by mid-December 2010. They are also planning to open a third…
I've only recently discovered the brilliant adjoined stores Puro Chile and Puro Wine in New York's Soho. While Puro Wine focuses on selling premium Chilean wines, Puro Chile sells an array of high quality Chilean products - olive oils, wool sweaters, photo books, and handicrafts. Combined they are a…
In Indonesian-Latino Comes to Jackson Heights, Edible Queens World's Fare blogger Joe DiStefano describes his visit to a new Indonesian-Latino restaurant, Tropika Grill n' Cafe, in Jackson Heights, Queens. Say what? Indonesian-Latino?…
