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Everyone deserves a well-earned break now and then and if you’re the type of person who would like to combine a trip abroad with a delicious cooking experience, this is the prize for you!

 
   

Cooking or culinary holidays, vacations, tours to Peru:

SHORT BREAKS : PERU

PERU
one of the most diverse cuisines in the world

Only in recent times has Peruvian cuisine started to be noticed abroad. Few outsiders had heard of such dishes as ceviche or carapulca, let alone tried them. Peruvian Cuisine is slowly but steadily conquering the palates of the most renowned chefs worldwide. So much so that a world gastronomy tour is now unthinkable without a stopover in South America's culinary capital Lima.

Peruvian cuisine benefits enormosuly from the country's great agricultural diversity which provides a wide choice of fresh ingredients. Potatoes and hot peppers from the Andes, fish and seafood from the Pacific Ocean, mangoes and limes from the coastal valleys, bananas and manioc from the Amazon jungle . . . a chef's only problem is abundance of choice. The cuisine has developed through the gentle influences from other cultures. Ever since the first blending between Inca and Spanish traditions, local cooks have been capable of incorporating the flavours and techniques of the many immigrants that disembarked in the country's ports, in particular African, Chinese, and Japanese.

  : :  Active Gourmet Holidays
This Active Gourmet Holidays tour mixes a taste of native criolla and traditional food with the trendy fusion through hands-on cooking classes, demonstrations and tasting menus. All of this is wrapped up within a framework of history and culture that explains every part of the tour and helps our guests understand the origin of all these great tastes.