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This is the launch video for Festival de Comida Peruana 2010 (Festival of Peruvian Food) in San Francisco at the Civic Center Plaza July 18, 2010.
Description
Demarty Productions Presents:
"The Peruvian Food Festival 2010"
Sunday
July 18th, 2010
@The Civic Center Plaza (across the st from
City Hall SF)
This highly anticipated event brings the best
Peruvian cuisine in nothern california with over 40 different dishes
& over15 of your different favorite restaurants participating. Enjoy
traditional music, dances, beer, Pisco, culture, food & an
awesome social gathering.
Entertainment will be provided by some
of Peru's best: "Orquesta Salsera" "La Clave" "Dianett
Paucar" "EL Blanco De La Cumbia" "Charlie Perez" "Estampas
Peruana De Vladimir Vucanovich"
Restaurants & Chef's
Participating: -Inca's Grill -Miraflores -Fresca -La Furia
Chalaca -Las Americas -El Toro Loco -El Hueco -Un Toque De
Jasslie -Chola's -Tocumbo Ice Cream -Kimberly Comida Andina -Jess's
Place -Isabella's -Dona Lucha -Puro Peru -Comida Vanesita -El
Perol -Trujillanito De Pura Cepa
Peruvian World Cup girls do condom ad photo shoot session n Lima, Peru. Bikini model Leysi wears the body paint colors of Peru's mother country, Spain!
Screen shots of Peruvian bikini model Leysi for a World Cup 2010 condom ad campaign for Gents in Lima, Peru.
Lima beauty Vanessa Tello, a 20 year old professional bikini & TV commercial model, was selected Miss Reef Peru 2010 at LarcoMar's complex Club Aura in Miraflores, Peru this past Feb, 2010. She will represent Peru at the Miss Reef International in Panama in April.
Cooking Up Dreams (Trailer) - Ollas y Sueños: This excellent documentary about the Peruvian Cuisine movement and the hottest food trend world-wide over the last few years was released last Fall in Lima, Peru. It will premierefor the first time in the U.S. this weekend in New
York, Chicago, Texas and Toronto. This movie is about the 500 years of cultural mixture or miscegenation (not fusion) of Peru with respect to it's rich gastronomical history, culture, migration, and it's various foods and cuisines within the country and abroad.
San Francisco Chronicle's SF Gatequote - "NO CON-FUSION HERE: "The very first place there was
fusion cuisine was Peru." -- Chef Patricio Gaston Herrera, relating
how New World and Old World cuisines melded nearly 500 years ago with
arrival of "invaders" -- the Spanish."
The premiere will take place on
Saturday April 17, 2010 at the Havana Film Festival in Manhattan, New York,
an important showcase for Latin American cinema. I've seen this
excellent film about Peru & Peruvian Cuisine. It is a must see!!!!
Details of Cooking Up Dreams (Trailer) - Ollas y Sueños:
Feature Documentary: "Cooking Up Dreams"
Original title: De Ollas y Sueños
Directed by: Ernesto Cabellos
Produced by: Televisión América Latina (TAL) and Guarango Association
Format: HDV 1080i60
Release date: August 2009 (Lima, Peru)
Images of Peruvian Cuisine and the international & domestic chefs in the documentary:
"Mesa de Chefs" (The Chefs Table)
Picture of Teresa Izquierdo (Afro-Criollo Peruvian Cuisine), Gaston Acurio (Haute-Peruvian Cuisine), and Hector Solis (traditional Criollo Peruvian Cuisine).
Bernardo Roca Rey - restaurateur, local newspaper owner, and one of the founders of the "Novo Andino" (New Andean) cuisine movement in Peru and abroad dating back to the early-1980s.
Peru is the birthplace of the potato. The Ancient Peruvians (pre-Inca civilizations) cultivated and domesticated the potato almost 10,000 years ago. Of the roughly 4,500 varieties of potatoeson Earth, 3,000 are indigenous to Peru.
Ernesto Cabello - Peruvian film director of Ollays y Sueños (Cooking Up Dreams)
Johnny Schuler - Pisco (Peruvian Brandy) ambassador, President of the Peruvian Pisco Association, TV personality, Pisco entrepreneur, and big investor of the U.S. Pisco market.
In Peru, there are hundreds of variety of "Choclo" (Peruvian corn).
The world famous "Choclo Blanco Gigante de Cuzco" (giant Peruvian white corn of Cusco). The delicious "Choclo Cusco" is the biggest corn in the world, they grow abundantly around the Valley of the Incas.
Top celebrity chefs leading the Peruvian Cuisine world conquest movement - Peru's Toshiro Konishi (Peruvian-Japanese Mixed Cuisine called "Nikkei"), Spain's Juan Mari Arzak (haute Spanish-Basque Cuisine), and Peru's Gaston Acurio.
Peru's Gaston Acurio- The #1 celebrity chef in all Latin America, owner of La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, Astrid y Gaston, & Tanta restaurant brand, TV personality, and leader of the Peruvian Cuisine movement world-wide.
Ferran Adria(haute Spanish Molecular Cuisine) - The #1 celebrity chef in the world, owner of Bulli (highest Michelin rated restaurant in the world), and now follower of Peru's Gaston Acurioand Pedro Miguel Schiaffino.
Pedro Miguel Schiaffino - Leader of Peru's haute Amazonian Cuisine movement, chef professor, and owner of Malabar in San Isidro, Peru (Food & Wine Magazine's 4th best bar in the world).
Desfilaron las mejores modelos de bikini del Peru en el evento organizado por Nino Peñaloza en el gigantesco Plaza de Armas de Lima llamado "Lima Esta De Moda 2009".
English:
Peru showcasted their best bikini models in a huge event organized by Nino Peñaloza at the gigantic Plaza de Armas in Lima called "Lima Is In Fashion 2009".
Picture of Peruvian bikini & lingerie models Claudia, Delly, Maricris, Osiris (in the back), and Tilsa (up front) at this fashion show in late November 2009.
Former Miss Reef Peru 2007, Miss Reef International 2008, Miss Hawaiian Tropics Peru 2006, Miss Hawaiian Tropics International 2007, Miss Playboy Peru 2007, & Miss Playboy Latin America & Iberia (Spain & Portugal) 2008 champion from Lima, Peru - Tilsa
Tilsa
Amazon beauty from Iquitos, Peru - Claudia
Claudia
A few pictures of Maricris from Lima, former Miss Hawaiian Tropics Peru 2008
Here is more info of the big bikini, trikini, and lingerie fashion show at the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru this Saturday, November 21, 2009. Lima Esta De Moda 2009 is a massive show that will have 70 top Peruvian and 10 Argentine models showcasing the latest for Verano (Summer) 2009-'10 in a two-hour gala that will be broadcast internationally all over South America and Europe by Pana-Americana TV.
A few images from last year's show lead by la Super Hot Peruana Tilsa:
This Saturday, November 21, 2009, is the big annual bikini, trikini, and lingerie fashion show at the imposing "Plaza de Armas" in Lima, Peru call "Desfile Lima esta de Moda 2009". These top Peruvian models will showcase the latest in swimwear and lingerie for Verano 2009-2010 (Summer '09-'10).
The show will be lead by Peru's top and one of Latin America's premier bikini model - Tilsa. She has won Miss Peru Hawaiian Tropic, Miss Hawaiian Tropic International, Miss Peru Reef, Miss Reef International, Miss Peru Playboy, and Miss Playboy TV Latin America & Iberia (Latin America, Spain, & Portugal) in the last two years. In other words, Tilsa has a spectacular body that is second to none in bikini contest!!!
Pictures of Peru's 25 year old bikini beauty Tilsa:
A recent front page picture from the top Newspaper in Chile, El Mercurio - "Peru is in style". An extensive report of Peru's dramatic transformation from an impoverish left wing, liberal, socialist, and dictatorship lead third-world country in the 70's and 80's to a leading capitalist power in Latin America from 1990 to the present and beyond. The report describes Peru's emergence as a tourist, cuisine, cultural, historical, fashion, capitalist, business, and environmentally friendly world power.
This cover page showcases the giant Cathedral of Lima, the oldest cathedral in the New World, at the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru.
Here is the expanded panoramic view of the Plaza de Armas at NIGHT!!!
The 17th century historian Bernabe Cobo said of the Plaza de Armas in Lima, Peru:
..."it is the finest and most well-formed [plaza] that I have
ever seen, even in Spain. It occupies an entire block, with the width
of four streets on one side and four streets on the other, and with all
four sides it measures more than two thousand feet; it is very flat..."
Miss Universe 2009 - Meet All The Beauty Contestants!
As of Thursday, August 20, 2009; here are the top 5 candidates to win Miss Universe 2009 according to the world-wide votes at the main Miss Universe site (images from Miss Universe L.P., LLLP) :
Miss Brasil - Larissa Costa
Miss Indonesia - Zivanna Letisha Siregar
Miss Ecuador - Sandra Vinces
Miss Guatemala - Lourdes Figueroa
Miss Peru - Karen Schwarz Espinoza
Here is the top blond candidate in 16th place, Miss Ukraine - Kristina Kots-Gotlib
In 41st place Miss USA - Kristen Dalton
Since 1980, the South American & Latin countries have dominated the two major international beauty pageants, Miss Universe and Miss World (with few exceptions). This year, in the pre-event vote count at the Miss Universe site, 6 South American countries (out of possible 10) are in the top 15 (semi-final stage). And 9 Latin American countries are in the 15.
A Latin girl will win this beauty pageant, again. Unless there is an upset, which does happen once in a while but it is not likely.
Here is the new Miss Peru Universe 2009 Pageant champion - 24 year old Karen Schwarz Espinoza! This beauty is extremely exotic, she is a "Criolla Amazonica" - a Peruvian girl of Spanish, German, and indigenous Amazonian heritage!
Look at the exotically beautiful Miss Schwarz of Amazonas, Peru sporting a spectacular figure! Definitely a very bright, well spoken, and confident girl - a champion written all over her!!!
