Peruvian Cuisine

National

The cuisines of Peru's coast, Andes and Amazon, with Quechua, Aymara, Afro-Peruvian, Chinese and Japanese strands.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • influenced by Quechua Foodways documented
  • related to Amazonian Foodways documented

    About 60 per cent of Peru is Amazon.

  • related to Andean Foodways documented

    The sierra is one of Peruโ€™s three worlds, not the whole of it.

  • related to Aymara Foodways documented
  • related to Bolivian Cuisine documented

    Lake Titicaca is shared, as are Quechua and Aymara communities and much of the highland repertoire.

  • related to Chilean Cuisine documented

    A shared desert coast, 19th-century war and border change, migration, and the pisco dispute.

  • related to Quechua Foodways documented

    Quechua is spoken by millions in Peru and its foodways are a root here, not a Peruvian subsection.

  • related to Spanish Foodways documented

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • migrated to Venezuelan Diaspora Foodways documented
  • originates from Chifa Cuisine documented
  • originates from Nikkei Cuisine documented
  • related to Bolivian Cuisine documented
  • related to Chilean Cuisine documented
  • related to Colombian Cuisine documented

    A shared Andean crop complex and an Amazonian border; Colombian Inga foodways carry a Quechuan link.

  • related to Cuy Foodways documented

    One Andean domesticate and one livestock tradition across the highlands of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and southern Colombia.

  • related to Ecuadorian Cuisine documented

    A shared Andean and Pacific inheritance, an Inca period in common, and a long argument about ceviche in which neither side is recorded here as right.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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