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“The ocean threw your veins, the salt that’s in your teeth…”
as the Phish lyrics are in my head bright thing this morning. I’m back at sea level. There’s something being so close to the
sea when it’s been in your blood since birth. A fogy mist was over the South Pacific today as I walked to
the “lovers park” first thing morning after I finished reading Steinbeck’s “Log
from the Sea of Cortez”. Just
roamed threw the streets first thing looking for that thing that captures my
eye threw the lens. It was one of
those mornings for sure. Working
on some travel/street photography.
I also had
Shelter from the Storm
in my head today, especially:
“Well, I’m livin’ in a foreign country but I’m bound to
cross the line
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Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine”
Those Dylan lyrics were in my head walking for some reason
that only I could understand.
Another one of my favorite things to do is cooking. I actually am self taught & I think
that the first thing I learned how to cook was lobster as a kid. The influence came early on with those
family excursions to Boston to get good “Italian & Chinese food because you
can’t get it in Maine” as both of my parents claims. I guess my love for food had to do
with those numerous days walking around Haymarket or the North End going into
every local shop on Hanover Street.
Well, a friend of mine, an executive chef, was also able to pull my culinary skills out of
me in Panama too. Since Lima is
know as the “food city of South America” I decided what better way to
experience it than take a cooking class. I spend numerous long hours searching
on Google for the perfect school.
It wasn’t easy to find a course in English, but I did. I ended up emailing Yurac, the
Peruvian chef & Christian, the
German translator, from Sky Kitchen
Sky Kitchen Cooking Course in Milraflores about the course. I decided to do the lunch option which
included three dishes, papa a la huanciana, a potato dish with a chili sauce,
ceviche, which is the “National Dish of Peru” and aji de gallina, a Peruvian
curry stew, I modified it with mahi mahi which was something new for Yurac to
try cos he never had made the recipe that way before only the traditional way
with chicken or tuna. I had a
lovely time chatting with Yurac & Christian with food & cultural. I learned quite a lot & made some
very yummy food at their home. It was nice to do something non traditional as
one would say & embraced myself in part of the cultural that I wouldn’t
else do if I didn’t take advantage of the opportunity.
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| Ceviche I Made |
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| Fresh Local Ingredients |
After my own private cooking class I decided to walk around
Milraflores where I stumbled upon some ancient ruins, Huanc Pucllana, that are
in the heart of the district. Funny to see a great adobe & clay pyramid built
from seven staggering platforms back somewhere between 200-700 AD, surrounded
by modern houses that remind me of being back in Melbourne or Vancouver’s beach
side districts. I walked around
the charming streets to catch a glimpse of the cultural of the district. However, when I went to take a peak
into the department store they were blasting a Britney Spears album the one
with “Crazy” on it. Funny, I have
notice that the Peruvians love American music & tend to blast 80’s music
from their cars & not to forget ABBA too. Also, instrumental music is big
here too; I’ve been hearing a lot of it with the traditional music of the Andes
too. Overall it’s been just another relaxing day in Lima with something new
around every corner.
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| Bug in front of Huanc Pucllana |
