by Lisa Grauman | Dec 18, 2018 | Misia Peta Books, MP/Hilda Calderon, News
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.
by Lisa Grauman | Dec 3, 2018 | MP/Hilda Calderon, News
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…
by Lisa Grauman | Nov 15, 2018 | MP/Hilda Calderon, News
In Peruvian kitchens from 1971 onward the book, Cocina Peruana por Misia Peta, with its over 900 recipes, was an extremely familiar sight. This one book taught countless to cook traditional Peruvian recipes culled from diverse Peruvian regions and eras or to use the recipes as starting points to create their own family versions of old Peruvian favorites. Misia Peta was the Julia Child of Authentic Peruvian Cuisine and fans still seek her books-40 to 50 years later-at used book fairs and online.
Cocina Peruana was so well-loved that it was reprinted 10 times in its semi-original form, reprinted at least a dozen times in publisher-amended portions and continues to be passed down in families. Until recently, however, little was known about the author behind the pen name to this 652 page book and the books that followed. This site is about the woman who was Misia Peta, her family and their love of good eating and best living.
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