La comida: breakfast

Since this week has been pretty uneventful I thought I would take this opportunity to do a little segment on the ridiculously yummy Peruvian food. The kinds of food as well as how they are eaten are so different from that of the U.S. that I can't do it all in one entry. No better place to start than from the top. On to breakfast!



This is a typical Peruvian breakfast. I don't think I've had anything else in the morning since I got here. There is also a specific order to eating said breakfast which I found out can be slightly complicated if you show up to breakfast still half asleep. First step is to drink the fresh squeezed juice. I've never had so many different flavors of juice in my life. Apparently boxed juices don't exist in Peru, and I'm okay with that. Once done with the juice, you can tackle the hot milk. You're supposed to put sugar in it. At Nini's they have brown sugar and mixed with the milk it tasted really good. Here it's plain sugar but its still good, just very different from what I'm used to. Coffee or tea can be substituted for the milk. But there is always something warm to drink. There is always bread, with meat and cheese or Nutella. It's a very filling breakfast, much different from the chewy bar or poptarts that I'm used to grabbing as I rush out to my first class.