Peruvian cuisine is considered one of the most diverse in the world and is on par with French, Chinese, and Indian cuisine. In January 2004, the Economist said, Peru can lay claim to one of the world’s dozen or so great cuisines.” Lima was declared the “Cultural and Food Capital of the Americas.” Thanks to its pre-Incas and Inca heritage and Spanish, Basque, African, Sino-Cantonese, Japanese, Italian, French, and British immigration (mainly through the 19th century), Peruvian cuisine com