Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez builds menus based on native ingredients

Ashley Walmsley
August 28 2018 - 7:30pm
TOP CHEF: Peruvian chef, Virgilio Martinez, has forged a reputation for using native ingredients from his home country to create elaborate menu items.
TOP CHEF: Peruvian chef, Virgilio Martinez, has forged a reputation for using native ingredients from his home country to create elaborate menu items.

THE room is packed to standing point only at the 10th World Potato Congress in Cusco, Peru. Up the front is a small table with an arrangement of potatoes and other native Peruvian ingredients on it.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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