Richmond, VA

Tallarin Saltado is a dish that shows how diverse the Peruvian culture is.
Its ingredients and way of cooking are a mixed of Asian, Spanish and native Peruvian.
In it, the Peruvian potato armonizes perfectly with the Asian rice, Eropean tomatos and the
rest of ingredients

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By C. Thi Nguyen (LA TIMES)

June 3, 2009
Ricardo Zarate remembers reading a 2004 article in the Economist magazine predicting that Peruvian cuisine was the Next Big Thing. A Peruvian who had studied at a culinary college in Peru, then at Westminster Culinary College in England, he was cooking in a Japanese restaurant in London. The moment he read the article, he knew it was right: Peruvian was the next big thing, and he wanted, desperately, to cook Peruvian in his own restaurant. He started dreaming and moved to L.A. in 2007. More