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Last month a Weimaraner named La Bruja gave birth to six puppies including Arena (”sand”), above.
La Bruja belongs to one of El Fotógrafo’s cousins who lives in Jesus María. We had heard that La Bruja was embarazada but we weren’t keeping track of...
Frank Zappa once warned: Don’t eat the yellow snow.
The same might be said about the vizcacha, a reclusive member of the South American bunny family that some food experts have recommended as a economical protein source. (See my Feb. ‘09 post.)...
It’s been more than a year since I had pizza at El Italiano, a classic pizzeria/trattoria in Lima’s rough-and-tumble La Victoria neighborhood.
In that time I had forgotten that El Italiano makes better pizza than almost any other place in Lima, a city...
I was raving the other day about the chocolates and other treats made by nuns and sold at the church of the Nazarenes, in downtown Lima, where El Señor de los Milagros lives.
I made myself so hungry writing that post, I had to go to the Nazarenes the...
El Híjo and I accompanied El Fotógrafo to last night’s opening of Noche de Arte, in San Isidro.
The art show was held in an enormous gallery owned by a Peruvian bank, and one of the amusing things about it was how the bank stayed open to accept...
Witty-gritty-funny,quirky . Honest solid stream-o-life essays delivered with straightforward ease and insight. Makes me want to be there and hang-out in dirty-noisy Lima.
