mistura food fair
The Wall Street Journal calls it the “Food Fair of the Gods”. I remember reading about Mistura last year and salivating from my desk at the Post-Dispatch. This year I got to salivate while waiting in line to try some delicious foods! My favorite discovery was something called “pollo (y cancho) al cilindro,” chicken and pork cooked inside of a metal barrel that resembles an oil drum. An unlikely oven, but the result was sooo flavorful and juicy. Also got in on one of my Peruvian favs called picarones. They are fried-on-the-spot donuts usually made of squash, pumpkin and/or sweet potato served with a syrup made of molasses and sometimes fig. Lucky for me and my wallet, I like the street version much better than the expensive restaurant one.
Too much food makes people sleepy…
