In his review of Peruvian standout Mochica, SF Weekly’s Robert Lauriston suggests an interesting foodie debate in his biweekly review: a culinary tournament that pits national cuisines against each other. Food and competition together? The Food Network is taking over the world:
Imagine a culinary Final Four, in which each country fields a team of its greatest chefs, and these teams fight it out to see which country’s food rules. It’s easy to pick favorites from the Old World: Surely France, China, Italy, and Japan would be among the last to be eliminated. But what about the New World?Call me a traitor, but my money’s on the Peruvians. Their cuisine has evolved over five centuries of interaction among the indigenous culture and successive waves of immigrants — Spanish, African, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French — who each added new ingredients and techniques to the mix. Today, Peru’s food is as sophisticated and varied as any in the world.
In his review of Peruvian standout Mochica, SF Weekly’s Robert Lauriston suggests an interesting foodie debate in his biweekly review: a culinary tournament that pits national cuisines against each other. Food and competition together? The Food Network is taking over the world:
The rest of the best reviews from around the Bay Area interwebs: the Bay Guardian ventures out into Limbo the Sunset to David’s Kitchen, SFist discovers there’s stuff besides gizzards and brains at Incanto, the Daily Candy checks out Russian Hill’s The Candy Store, and The Best Food Section in America takes excursions to Mountain View’s Nami Nami and to Albany’s Nizza La Bella.
