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In Peru, A Hunt For Chocolate Like You've Never Tasted It

Posted by Melissa Pitts

NPR.com:Christopher Columbus first encountered the cacao bean on his final voyage to the New World some 500 years ago. It took a while for Europeans to embrace the taste — one 16th-century Spanish missionary called the chocolate that indigenous people drank "loathsome.

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The Next Big Thing: Peruvian Food

Posted by Abigail Garcia

WSJ.com: Make room Spain and Korea, Peru is having its moment in the gastronomic sun. Yesterday, a crew of the culinary world's leading lights, including Denmark's René Redzepi, France's Michel Bras and America's Dan Barber began descending on Lima for a star-studded food festival.

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