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A green tamale -- filled with chicken and cilantro -- made by Karina Medina, and sold on the street in Lima.

Here’s why some Peruvians are giving up jobs as lawyers and accountants to become chefs

Arts, Culture & Media

Only a few years go, visiting Peru wasn’t really a desirable thing. For one thing, until recently, there were very few restaurants to speak of. Now that’s changed, and Peru’s cuisine is on the rise.

A small group of people from the Japanese community recently gathered at the temple in Lima to chant and make offerings to their deceased relatives. On the altar were plates of sandwiches and cakes; even a bag of Lay’s potato chips.

Lima’s stressed-out are turning to Zen Buddhism

Lifestyle & Belief
The Huscar Park in a working-class neighborhood of Lima is a public park, but you have to pay admission. It's extra for things like using the basketball courts and making a video.

In Peru, this is why people lock public streets and pay to use public parks

Lifestyle & Belief

La Sarita: Rock ‘n’ Roll from Peru

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Researchers & Restaurateurs Work to Save Peru’s Food Diversity

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Blog: Lima’s Brown Coast

Lima and its contiguous suburbs and shantytowns sprawl between a sand-brown desert of undulating hills on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. Today, accompanied by my translator, Dado, and driver, Juan Carlos, I sped down an avenue that hugs the shoreline […]

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Blog: Lima’s Future Water Shortage

As I type these words, I’m flying 39,000 feet over Ecuador. Shortly, I will land in Lima, a sprawling city of about nine million people. Lima is one of the cities of the world most immediately threatened by global warming. The city was built on the edge of a desert, one of the driest in […]

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Peruvian fog nets

Business, Economics and Jobs

The BBC’s Dan Collyns reports on the way some low-income residents of Lima, Peru, collect their clean water. They use fog nets to harvest water from the mist that often shrouds the city.