Tag: pisco

The Pisco King

by Garry Burns on April 6, 2020 in America, Food, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized, Wine • rel="nofollow"0 Comments

Meet Johnny Schuler, Peruvian restaurateur, celebrity chef, tv personality, master distiller and Medal of Honour winner for his work in promoting the uniquely Latin American spirit, Pisco. We bumped into Johnny one freezing Friday over lunch in The Plaza Food Hall by Todd English when we stepped in from the cold to enter the Plaza Hotel in our dining ‘brag book’. We’d…

Cuzco

by Garry Burns on November 14, 2019 in Food, Peru, Peru by the numbers. A baby-boomer's flashback on the gringo trail, Restaurants, The Americas • rel="nofollow"0 Comments

We’re in Cuzco (Cusco) and it’s the eighth day of our ramble along Peru’s famous Gringo Trail. To recap, our journey commenced in Lima before flying, via Cuzco, to Puerto Maldonado and 2 nights in Reserva Amazonica in the headwaters of the Amazon River. We then flew back to Cuzco and, leaving our heavy baggage in storage, were immediately swept…