Vegan Good Eats

Peruvian Street Food: Picarones or Squash Sweet Potato Fritters

Dare I say these are the Peruvian version of funnel cake? That would be foodie blasphemy worthy of a spanking. Now you are wondering if I did that on purpose.

Typical picaronera feeding the masses

A picaronera was the nice lady who stood behind a food stand making these fritters. She would be at almost all school events and holidays frying these fresh for all of us.

Snoballs and Foodie Valhalla

I grew up in foodie valhalla. In what I still believe to be a not-so-distant past, it was a mythological and supernatural era where farmers markets were the norm and the processed foods of the giant evil grocers were a mere futuristic wife’s tale.

PIcarones, a squash and sweet potato fried dough served soaked with thickened molases "chancaca"

Lima, Peru in the 1980s was a land of fresh seafood, exotic fruits, the traveling egg and milkman, home cooked meals, and streets [...]