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Since March we know that the 10th edition of Mistura won’t be held at its former location in Lima’s Magdalena del Mar, but moves further north to Callao. Yesterday however Apega, organizer of the event, surprisingly announced another change of location for this year’s gastronomic fair.

Mistura, South America’s largest and most important gastronomic fair in Lima, is just 2 months away and until now only a few basic details have been released and this back in March.

For years largely unnoticed by food enthusiasts, Lima, the Peruvian capital, developed into one of the great gastronomic capitals of the world over the past decade that by now can easily compete with old-established gourmet cities such as New York, Paris, Rome and Tokyo.

To celebrate Fiestas Patrias, Peru’s National Holiday, the gastronomic fair Invita is back at the Parque de la Exposicion in Lima in its 7th edition.

Peru has one of the best tasting and finest cacao beans and chocolates in the world. To celebrate and showcase the local variety producers, manufacturers, entrepreneurs and exporters of Peruvian cocoa and products made of it come together once a year for the Cacao and Chocolate Salon since 2010.

For the 4th time Tacna, the southernmost Peruvian city at the border to Chile, hosts the “Perú, mucho gusto” food festival at the end of April.

For the past few years Peruvian food is on everyone’s lips, literally as well as figuratively. A new generation of Peruvian chefs redefined the local cuisine making it known around the globe and developed Peru, and here especially Lima, often named the gastronomic capital of the world, into a Mecca for food lovers.

After the successful 1st International Gastronomic Fair “Sabe a Pimentel” (it tastes like Pimentel) last year, the Lambayeque Foreign Trade and Tourism Regional Management (Gercetur) announced the 2nd edition will be held from the 17th to the 19th of March at the Pimentel beach resort area south of town.

After Apega, the Peruvian Gastronomy Society, announced a new location and a new date for this year’s Mistura just weeks before Peru’s largest food fair was supposed to start, it seems that now the chaos is over and the organization is back on track.

In its third season, starting on February 17, 2017, the popular, Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary “Chef’s Table” finally features one of Peru’s most renowned culinary stars.