{"id":803,"date":"2012-07-16T03:22:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/?p=803"},"modified":"2024-07-18T09:35:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:35:29","slug":"eating-gertie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.viggers.com\/roundtheworld\/2012\/07\/eating-gertie\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Gertie"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had completely forgotten about the Guinea Pigs.<\/p>\n

We are trying to get into the local swing of things, going to non-touristy restaurants, avoiding the ubiquitous traveler pizzas etc. but in Arequipa we had completely missed out on the local delicacy of “Cuy”. Fortunately, serendipity intervened. We were half way through a self-guided tour of the Monasterio de Santa Catalina<\/a> where we found \u2013 hidden at the back of one of the rather luxurious Nuns’ cells from the 18th<\/sup> Century \u2013 a small but effective guinea pig farm. These lovely, cuddly animals make the most amazing alarm call, a little like a modern burglar alarm, and given that the only people who normally come to visit them must be the convent chef, alarm calling they were. It gave us quite a fright, but we soon recovered enough to take this spectacularly lugubrious photo:<\/p>\n\"I\n

It didn’t take us long to find a local restaurant that would dish us up some “Cuy”, and so we settled down with a Pisco Sour apiece for our culinary experience of the day. The verdict? A little like rabbit. Quite tasty, but with not much meat on the bones (sorry Fluffy). Glad we did it; probably wouldn’t repeat it. And in retrospect we are glad that we didn’t get it au naturel<\/em>, which includes the head and the claws, described by some delightfully English fellow travelers as “like they had got a guinea pig and a frying pan, and BOSH!”.<\/p>\n

\"Lucy,

Lucy, saying grace<\/p><\/div>\n

Next culinary stuntman stop, Korea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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