Sofía Mendoza

📍 Lima, Peru

🗣 Spanish, English

Food writer and researcher based in Barranco, Lima. I have spent eight years documenting the origins of Peruvian cuisine — specifically the Japanese, Chinese, African and Andean threads that make it unlike anything else in the world. Lima has been named best culinary destination in Latin America multiple times, and every year more visitors come to eat at the big-name restaurants. I take people to the places where the same ingredients and techniques appear for a quarter of the price, in cevicherías that have been in the same family since the 1970s, and into my kitchen where I show how cebiche, causa and tiradito are actually constructed from ingredients sourced that morning at Surquillo market.