Monthly Archives: July 2013

Peruvian Independence Day Dinner in NOLA

Peruvian Independence Day Dinner at Carmo, New Orleans, July 2013

Peruvian Independence Day Dinner at Carmo, New Orleans, July 2013

In what has now become an annual tradition, I returned to NOLA last weekend to cook a 4-course Peruvian pop-up dinner and serve Pisco cocktails at Carmo to celebrate Peruvian Independence Day, and I was delighted for the opportunity to once again share Peruvian food and culture with a city that in many ways reminds me of Peru.
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3 Pisco Cocktails and a Dessert for NOLA

3 Pisco Cocktails and a Dessert for NOLA

3 Pisco Cocktails and a Dessert for NOLA

Of all the pop-up events I did last year, one of my favorite was the Peruvian Independence Day dinner in NOLA, and I am delighted to announce that this year I’ll be back in NOLA as guest chef for another pop-up cocktail and dinner event at Carmo the last weekend in July. But this week, NOLA is all about celebrating cocktail culture through Tales of the Cocktail. So to honor my love for New Orleans and to toast to all my friends who are there now, I present for your pleasure 3 Pisco cocktails and a dessert, cheers!
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Pisco Punch

Pisco Punch

Pisco Punch, born during the Gold Rush days of the Barbary Coast

Born during the Gold Rush days of the Barbary Coast, the Pisco Punch is one of the most important cocktails in the history of San Francisco. It was imbibed by Mark Twain and a real-life Tom Sawyer over 100 years ago at Duncan Nicol’s Bank Exchange bar on Montgomery Street where the Transamerica Pyramid now stands. Kipling compared its color to the “glory of a tropical dawn” and “red clouds of sunset.” And from the late 1800’s, through the Great Earthquake of 1906, until the beginning of Prohibition, the Pisco Punch defined the culinary identity of San Francisco.
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Wild West Whiskey in Leadville

Two Guns Distillery, Leadville CO — Wild West Whiskey and Moonshine

Two Guns Distillery, Leadville CO — Wild West Whiskey and Moonshine

Most of my travels revolve around food and cocktails, such as visiting New Orleans to cook a Peruvian pop-up dinner at Carmo Cafe, my annual pilgrimage to the International Food Blogger Conference, which is going to be in Seattle this year, or my upcoming trip to the famous Mistura food festival in Peru. So why would I go to Leadville, Colorado? To train and run in the mountains of the High Country. That’s right, besides cooking Peruvian food and making Pisco cocktails, I love to run, but here, I want to tell you about my visit to the highest distillery in the world — and the whiskey cocktails I enjoyed at Two Guns Distillery.
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