Marco Avilés

Marco Avilés

 

Marco Avilés is a Peruvian writer and editor. His most recent book, De Donde Venimos Los Cholos (Where Do We Cholos Come From), chronicles the harsh treatment that his family and other people of mixed indigenous and Spanish ancestry receive.

A Lima street vendor dishes up anticucho, grilled skewers that are traditionally prepared with marinated beef heart or tongue. It is a culinary tradition probably started by enslaved Africans here during the Spanish colonization.

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How Food Became Religion in Peru's Capital City

Great cooking is what defines Lima today, but the culinary boom started decades ago, during a time of conflict

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