Gastón Acurio and Andy Sewell's Peru: The Cookbook opens 500 recipes from one of the world's most celebrated chefs, letting you cook ceviche, lomo saltado, and lesser-known Peruvian classics without ever leaving your kitchen.

Peruvian cooking ranges from Gastón Acurio's home-kitchen classics and Martin Morales's ceviche and Andean superfoods to Virgilio Martínez's altitude-organized tasting menu at Central.
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Gastón Acurio and Andy Sewell's Peru: The Cookbook opens 500 recipes from one of the world's most celebrated chefs, letting you cook ceviche, lomo saltado, and lesser-known Peruvian classics without ever leaving your kitchen.

Ceviche by Martin Morales brings Lima's street markets and mountain villages into 100 recipes that taste like Peru's coasts, highlands, and jungles all at once.

Milk Street Noodles makes a case for your colander as a passport—125 recipes spanning fettuccine Alfredo to pad Thai to miso ramen, and Christopher Kimball has the kitchen-tested receipts from every stop.

Quinoa and potatoes get their close-up in Martin Morales, David Loftus, and Dave Brown's Andina, which reveals the unique dishes of Peru's Andes for the first time.

Cooking Peru's 15 ecosystems, one altitude at a time, is exactly what chef Virgilio Martínez reveals in Central, where curiosity and biodiversity meet the plate.


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Updated August 2026