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Luna Chica · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 177 Location: Trujillo, Peru

What food should I gorge myself on before I leave? What do you guys really miss? I know there is not a whole lot of good dairy available and I love my cheese.

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Hi, There's lots of queso fresco. Which is cheap and good. In big cities, you can find cheese, it's just expensive. And there's lots of milk available here as well.

vaughnyb · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 39

Even Soy Milk?

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

There is soy milk, but... yuck. Not very drinkable.

What I missed was variety. Living in a smallish city, I didn't have access to the different types of ethnic foods that I so often craved. Peruvian food (even the veggie stuff!) is good, but there where days when I just craved a burrito or falafel.

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keepwalking · Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 194 Location: Peru, at last

Good cheese outside Lima is as rare as an honest politician anywhere in the world! Maybe I was just spolit in the UK with the variety of local cheeses we have there (more than France!!) but I have yet to find any good cheese here. Milk is available but it is always full fat. Unless you go for that Long Life stuff. Yuck.

It's definitely variety I miss. I have family coming in December and they are bringing a spare bag full of spices and packet sauces just to ring the changes a bit. If you have fave herbs and spices to cook with, bring a truck load. You can get the basics here - corriander, saffron, oregano but anything allegedly spicey is always a disappointment. Apart from Aji which is a godsend for a curry-starved Brit.