Cocina Peruana Restored!

As you can see from the photo above, my family’s copy of Cocina Peruana has become overly well-worn over the years—the glue has long ago stopped trying to hold the cover onto the stitched pages and I now keep it in a gallon sized Ziploc to hold it all together. This is true for generations of Peruvians who have had no alternative as the book has been out of print for over 30 years. Until now…..

We are pleased to announce that Cocina Peruana has been lovingly restored to its original perfection and is about to be offered to the public spring 2019 in both e-book and hard bound versions.

In addition, we are busy translating Cocina Peruana into English & will be posting some of those recipes here until the English version is ready to launch.

Misia Peta Interview (3 Dec 2010)-English/Spanish

Time had not slowed down her seemingly boundless energy. At the age of 95, Misia Peta owned her own mobile phone which she quickly answered herself, regularly communicated with her family across several continents using Skype and answered her FaceBook fans personally.

I called her on December 3, 2010, and conducted a phone interview for her FaceBook page. The interview was conducted in Spanish as my grandmother never felt comfortable speaking English (although she understood just enough to get in trouble). You can read the original Spanish interview (“Intervista con Misia Peta”) located just after the English translation version below. The following is that interview translated by yours truly into English…