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Podcast: New Books in Food
Episode: Robert C. Bradley, "Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Description: Today, Peru is rightly recognized as the number one food destination on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the worldâs culinary critics were focusing their attention elsewhere. Fortunately, wine merchantâturnedâarchaeologist and art historian Robert C. Bradley was in Peru. His new book Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey (U Oklahoma Press, 2023) is the product of twenty-five years of exquisite digressions from what Bradley might call his âreal jobââthe culmination of decades of personal discoveries about the food of Peru and the history that led to its current culinary florescence.Bradley joins New Books Network to offer up som...