-Two girls infatuated with the Che image have launched a website spotting, well, the Che image. -Dan Saltzmen at the NYtimes sips mezcal in Mexico. -Gastón Acurio’s new anticucheria in Lima, Panchita, has opened. -A new Photo book on Machu Picchu, Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu’s Terraces of Enlightenment, as been…
Iquitos, Peru is the largest city in the world not connected by roads. The capital of Peru’s northern Amazon rainforest sits on the Rio Ucayali, not far from where it meets with the Amazon River. The city was officially founded on Jan. 5, 1864 by the Peruvian Navy, however, the…
The Nikkei (Japanese-Peruvian) take on ceviche is tiradito. Like ceviche raw fish is marinated in lime juice, where the citric acid cooks the fish. It is served in a number of ways, but the common traits are thin slices of fish. Usually there is a thick aji-based sauce (a yellow…
I don’t think there is much to explain on this one: A Pastrami on Rye sandwich from Katz Delicatessen in New York’s Lower East Side.…
Lots of of food and travel items have popped up in major publications in the past week. Here are some of the highlights.…
The rickshaw or tuk-tuk like three-wheeled moto taxi is a favorite method of transport for many in South America, but usually for just a few kilometers. Never the continent. A few loco Brits have decided to change that. They official name of their adventure is “The Mototaxi Junket and the…
Both are native to Brazil and inhabit similar territories. However, they rarely interact. In a zoo in Japan, however, they share the same enclosure. Recently, a zoo keeper caught some strange behavior inter-species behavior going on. The monkeys have begun to ride the capybara, even picking off fleas and grooming…
Jet Blue founder Dan Neeleman has started up a new, low cost airline in his native Brazil called Azul Airlines. Azul, which started flying in January of 2009, flies to Porto Alegre, São Paolo, Manaus, Curitaba, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, Fortaleza, and several other destinations. Like Jet Blue, the…
La Paz, Bolivia is the home of the world's only museum dedicated to coca, the plant that cocaine is made from. With Bolivia's new President Evo Morales being a former coca farmer who strongly supports the crop this museum is sure to gather much more attention than before. There is…
In downtown Santiago, Chile there sits an always crowded market known as Mercado Central. On tours of downtown its a standard tourist stop, though it has yet to lose it’s authenticity as this photo reveals. Seafood is the draw, either from the overpriced eateries in the center where old school…
