Eat lomo saltado

Eat ceviche where it was invented — raw fish cured in minutes by lime, chilli and leche de tigre

Sip a pisco sour — grape brandy, lime, bitters and egg-white foam — in the country that swears it invented it

Join Peru's national ritual: charcoal-spit pollo a la brasa, fries, and the great ají sauce debate

Eat anticuchos at dusk — smoky beef-heart skewers from a street grill, Afro-Peruvian soul food

Eat your way through Lima, South America's food capital, between colonial plazas and Pacific clifftops

Eat ají de gallina — shredded chicken drowned in velvet yellow-chilli cream, Lima comfort food since colonial days

Eat causa — chilled towers of lime-and-chilli mashed potato, proof Peru does things with potatoes nobody else imagined

Eat picarones hot from the street fryer — squash-and-sweet-potato rings drowned in raw-cane syrup