Cultures around the world

Country: Peru

 "Culture, here understood as the totally ok what a group of people think, how they behave, and what they produce that id passed on to future generations"(Jervis N., 2006).

Culture is the country’s essence, it describes the population’s behave and belief. Culture is related with their traditions, customs, slang and all the features related with a specific society group. Around the world there are lots of different cultures, it varies according the continent, and also inside the continent, it varies according the country.

"A culture is a design for living or, more precisely, a complex whole consisting of objects, values, and other characteristics that people have acquired as members of society. (Thio. A., 1991).

Peru has a vast variety of food, for its geographical location and its weather’s variety, vegetables and fruit have their particular size and flavor, and they are too different from other countries. Peruvian people use their vegetables and fruit to prepare different dishes, desserts, drinks among others.

Other attribute about Peru’s gastronomic is that it has jungle’s influence. Peru has a big variety of fruit, they prepare lots of desserts with them.  Some local fruit are lucuma (zapote), chirimoya, manioc root (mandioca)... these fruit are really consume by the Peruvians.

The most popular and use ingredient in Peru is potato, potatoes were originated there, there are more than four thousand different types of potatoes in Peru, so potatoes have an important role in Peruvian’s gastronomic, they prepare hundreds of different dishes using them.

One delicious dish is “Papa a la Huancaina”, this is prepared with potatoes and a special yellow sauce. It is served with a lettuce and a hard-boiled egg on the top. This dish is really typical in Peru, in any holyday, any activity they will prepare it.