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The vegetarian wave is strong and growing every day in Lima, Peru. Here is my personal list of 6 vegetarian restaurants that for sure will calm your hunger for veggies while traveling in Lima, Peru.
Recavarren 298 Miraflores
Phone: 243-0474
Mon – Fri (11am – 11pm)
Sat (5pm – 11pm)
Serves seasonal organic and vegetarian food, tofu, cakes and muffins baked with whole grain flours and natural sugar substitutes. Comfortable environment, great owners, Almazen offers a wonderful solution for vegetarians traveling through Lima. Credit cards are accepted.
Av. Larco 413, Miraflores
Phone: 446-5791
A longtime vegetarian restaurant in a new location (Miraflores) since 2007, Serves meals, including vegetarian versions of famous Peruvian dishes like lomo saltado and cebiche made with mushrooms, yogurt and desserts. Lunch menu from 12-2pm Monday to Friday. Closed Sundays.
Alcanfores 453-416, Miraflores (at Tarata, half block from Schell)
Phone: 241-0507
Mon – Sat 8am – 10pm
Restaurant, Coffee/Tea/Juice
El Paraiso Bio Leben consists of two restaurants that face one another. One is open for lunch only.
Jr. Camana 344 (at 1 block from Plaza Mayor/Plaza de Armas, in Centro de Lima)
Phone: 428-4591
Vegetarian restaurant, Juice bar and health food shop. Offers takeaway food.
Cantuarias 285 (at the corner of Ave. La Paz)
Phone: 445-6503
Mon – Sat: 9am – 8pm
Closed Sundays
Good atmosphere and good service. Cheap daily menu (around ) for soup, main plate, yogurt, drink and dessert, but only accepts cash.
Recavarren 156, Miraflores (at just south of Pardo)
Phone: 445-1447
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun Noon-5pm
Menu costs 7 soles (8 soles on Sunday) with 3 choices for an appetizer and 3 for a main course, plus bread, a fruit dessert, and a drink. Also sells yogurt, juices, and a few other things. One of the few places to offer a full menu (at a good price) on Sundays.
Schell 634
Lima
Phone: 444-2871
Govinda offers lots of healthy vegetarian options. Prices are inexpensive (US -4 for a 3-course meal). This location has a small shop selling incense, clothing and health food.
Jirón Callao 480 (near Av. Tacna in Centro de Lima)
Lima
Phone: 426-3305
Govinda offers lots of healthy vegetarian options. Prices are inexpensive (US -4 for a 3-course meal).
Hare Krishna-Run Vegetarian Restaurant
Tai-i VegetarianoAve Petit Thouars 5232
Lima
Phone: 444-0641
Chinese and Indian Restaurant
Tai-i is not strictly vegetarian, but it has many vegetarian Chinese, Indian and Peruvian options. It offers a daily menu that costs around 5.50 soles, which includes choice of soup or starter, main plate, dessert, and drink. It also has snow cones with fruit flavors and fresh juices. The menu is easy to navigate, with photos of each of the dishes.
For more information visit VegGuide . A community-maintained, world-wide guide to vegetarian and vegan restaurants, grocers, and more.
– By Paul Goulder – It is worth examining the significance of the discovery of the tomb of a Wari noble at the Espiritu Pampa archaeological site, an “aristocrat” who has been named variously Lord Vilca, Huari, Wari and (here) Vilcabamba. Journalists have a nose for the sensational, so it is not surprising that in Australia, [...]
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In the first year of Peru’s free trade agreement with China, bilateral trade rose by 43.6%, with Peruvian exports worth .4 billion and a total of .1 billion in imports from China. According to Eduardo Ferreyros, minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Peruvian exports to China increased by 33% in 2010 and are expected to [...]
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Are you planning a trip to Peru and want ideas on how to best spend your time? While travel guides are useful at advising us which hostel is the cleanest and friendliest or where the closest ATM is, they often don’t cut it for assisting us plan out the ideal route to explore a country.
Having just spent five weeks researching and blogging as a volunteer with Karikuy in Peru, I had the opportunity to spread my wings far and wide, using Lima as a base for my adventures. I met several locals and like-minded travellers who shared their experiences with me, allowing me to gather ideas, filter and hand-pick destinations that appealed to me most.
While five weeks is an ideal amount of time to spend travelling the Land of the Incas, my retrospective review of my travels tells me I didn’t use my time as efficiently as I could have. So, I thought I’d spare you from the same mistakes and share my ideal itinerary: how I’d do it next time in 30 days (and there definitely will be a next time! – this country is amazing).
Eleanor was a volunteer with Karikuy in 2010. To learn more about how you can participate visit www.karikuy.org/volunteer.
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Cuy
Guinea pig is, without a doubt, one of the top traditional dishes that passengers remember long after leaving the region. Although typically eaten by Peruvians only during times of celebration such as weddings, birthdays, and festivals, the lucky traveler can often obtain a local dish of cuy at any restaurant on any day.
Served fried or baked and with various garnishes, the typical cuy dish is recommended to try, but generally not as a main course as you may find yourself starving for a second dinner! Order a serving as an appetizer, but be warned that this dish is served intact with the head and claws included. If you are squeamish and don’t mind missing an unusual photo op, ask your waiter to have the kitchen cut it up for you before it makes its way to your table.
Trout
Although seafood in Cusco is little recommended due to its distance from the ocean, fresh trout is a local specialty and is available in huge quantities from the local streams and rivers. Served in a variety of ways and sauces, the best recommendation to not obscure the flavor is also the simplest- trucha frita. In this case the trout is served pan fried in a very light batter, often with white rice and French fries accompanying it.
Rocoto Relleno
Another favorite of Cusquenians, this dish is often offered by restaurants as an appetizer or main course. The dish centers around a stuffed rocoto or hot pepper similar in shape to that of the less spicy bell pepper. Common ingredients in the stuffing include ground meat, onions, rice, peanuts, raisins, carrots, peas and fried egg.
Chicharron
Chicharron can come in a variety of different forms depending on the meat that is fried within it. Although common forms of chicharron include white fish, trout, and chicken in a heavier batter, the undeniably most popular is chicharron de cerdo-or fried pork. Served often with mint salad and white sweet corn on the cob, called choclo, and potatoes, these meaty portions of fried pork are very popular among Cusquenians looking for a hearty lunch-so much so that the city even has entire streets dedicated to the dish!
Chicha Morada
Though not a food, Chicha Morada is a typical Peruvian drink whose recipe has been in use since Incan times. A non-alcoholic sister of the fermented grain/corn drink chicha, the purple (morada) version is made from purple corn and ultimately tastes a lot like fruit punch. This is a perfect drink to order by the jug to pair with your quintessential Peruvian meal!
This guide to the top 5 dishes to order in Cusco restaurants was written by a Peru vacations.
Robert De Niro is back on the big screen in the action thriller Limitless, playing a business mogul alongside Bradley Cooper.
The legendary actor talked to Parade.com about his new role, his thoughts on fame, and plans for his next film with Martin Scorsese. Plus, how De Niro feels about being an inspiration to a new generation of actors.
On keeping his fame in check.
“You have to be very careful with all that because it is fleeting. I think if you have the opportunity to work and do things such as I have, you have to be grateful that you had the chance and take advantage of the opportunity because you might not ever get another one. You’re lucky if you get two chances. Some people get all crazy, they think that all of a sudden they are God’s gift to whatever. Everybody is dispensable. Nobody is indispensable. You have to be smart about it. Just take advantage and do your work and be happy you got to where you got.”
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He’s grateful for his years of obscurity.
“I did Godfather II when I was 31, so I had all my young life before that hit. I see some actors, they’re so young when they start, and that’s OK, but it’s a different experience. You gotta handle it because if you don’t handle it, you’re going to blow it and it’s all going to go and then what? So it’s a good thing to have some kind of foundation and if you’ve had a little obscurity in your life, that’s good.”
On being the inspiration for his Limitless co-star Bradley Cooper becoming an actor.
“I’d rather be that than the alternative! It’s nice, but it’s all I can do. Now he’s sick of me because I won’t leave him alone!”
On the intimidation factor his younger co-stars may feel.
“That goes away in a couple days, if not sooner. You have to work. In fact, any of that kind of stuff you should use an actor. You should use it in the interaction.”
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On the upcoming 10-year anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival, which he co-founded in response to the attacks on 9/11.
“I’m amazed that ten years have passed. I can account for them all, but how fast they go by. And the older you get, the faster they go. I’m very happy that it’s doing as well as it is. I hoped that it would become a real genuine New York City institution, part of the culture, and part of the future of the city.”
Why he’ll always be a New Yorker.
“New York is a great city, it’s that simple. It’s got a great energy. It’s so big that you can be anonymous in a way.”
Can De Niro be anonymous in the Big Apple?
“I walk around here a lot of times and go unnoticed. I love Central Park. It’s terrific. I walk through there a lot.”
He can’t envision himself as anything but an actor.
“I do other things now, but if I had not been an actor or not been forced to earn a living as an actor, I don’t know what the alternative would have been or what I would have done.”
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Hollywood is a small world.
“I run into actors that I knew from back when and you don’t start bringing up things. I told Dustin Hoffman once, for example, that I worked as a waiter in a restaurant that was being used in a campaign [event] for Eugene McCarthy when he was running against Bobby Kennedy. This was in 1968 and Dustin was there as a part of this thing for McCarthy. I waited at his table. I told Dustin this years later and he said, ‘So? What do you want from me?’”
On reuniting with Scorsese.
“I’m planning on it, absolutely. It’s a movie based on a book called I Heard You Paint Houses. It’s about a guy who confessed that he killed Hoffa and also Joe Gallo, so I’m going to play that character. Joe Pesci is going to be in it and Al Pacino is going to be in it and Marty’s the director. We’re really working towards making it happen.”
Don’t expect him to join Twitter anytime soon.
“I don’t Twitter or any of that stuff, which is fine. I don’t have a fan club that I talk to or whatever. My young relatives are into everything, so they show me. I use the computer, but Twitter’s not something that I’m into. I think it’s great, and it’s not that I don’t understand it, but in a way, I don’t get it and that’s OK.”
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PBIFF highlights include a gala which will honor actor Richard Jenkins (left), and the films ‘Win Win’ with Paul Giamatti (right, top) and ‘The First Grader’. (Jenkins photo by Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images)
An Academy Award-nominated actor will be honored and another will be featured in the opening film at this year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival, which runs March 23-31 at local theaters throughout the county.
The festival will honor Richard Jenkins with its Golden Palm Award at its Silver Screen Splash on March 25 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. Jenkins, who was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 2008’s The Visitor. Jenkins has become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after character actors, having been featured in such movies as Flirting With Disaster, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Burn After Reading, Eat Pray Love, and the recently released Hall Pass and Let Me In.
The Silver Screen Splash will also feature the music of Dennis Lambert, a singer-songwriter known for writing such songs as “Ain’t No Woman” by the Four Tops, “Baby Come Back” by Player and “We Built This City” by Starship. Lambert’s story was told in the documentary Of All the Things, which made its PBIFF debut in 2008.
Meanwhile, the festival will open two days prior to that at Muvico Parisian 20 at CityPlace with Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, who was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in 2005’s Cinderella Man. Giamatti stars as a struggling wrestling coach who stumbles across a star athlete via questionable business dealings. Win Win was directed by Tom McCarthy, who also directed The Visitor and The Station Agent.
The festival official closing movie, to be shown at the Movies of Delray on March 28, is The First Grader, the story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager who fights for his right to attend school for the first time. It was directed by Justin Chadwick, who’d previously directed The Other Boleyn Girl.
The festival’s Student Showcase of Films will be held on March 25 at Lynn University. It will celebrate the work of nearly 200 Florida high school and college students, whose film submissions are competing for scholarships.
The Weekend of Shorts will be held at the Lake Worth Playhouse, while the Voices of Local Films will be held at the Movies of Delray. These will be held March 26-27.
There will be two Q&A’s:
• On March 24, there will be a special showing of The Rescuers at the Muvico Parisian 20, which will feature a Q&A with the filmmakers, along with Holocaust survivor and Palm Beach resident Peter Vagi. The film is a documentary of how a Rwandan anti-genocide activist teams up with the Holocaust historian Sir Martin Gilbert to talk to survivors and descendents of the diplomats who rescued tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazi death camps.
• On March 26, following a screening of the documentary Living for 32, which follows the story of a survivor of the Virginia Tech student massacre, there will be a Q&A with Colin Goddard, the central figure of the film.
The festival will also present “Best of the Fest”, encore screenings of the festival’s most popular films, on March 29-31 at Boca Raton’s Living Room Theaters.
For schedule information and more, click here.
Click here for a full list of this year’s feature films and documentaries.
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Seeing as it’s February and everywhere you look it’s all hearts, flowers and chocolates, we thought we’d continue with our little chocolate obsession with this blog on where our delicious chocolate comes from…the cacao tree. You might hear many different words describing chocolate. The Latin name for cacao is Theobroma, which means ‘food of the [...]
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