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Robert Frank is a master of black and white photography and in capturing a certain feel and put of something familiar yet somehow elevated. This is a slim volume of work that has not been printed in its complete form so this is a rare treat for Robert Frank collectors. beautifully printed and this probably won't stay in print so best to buy a copy before it goes out of print.
Even in this book, Robert Frank is able to capture the humanity of the moment. Compare its images in this book with the amazing reportage by Werner Bischof in the same places. Both are amazing masters, but the spontaneity of Frank is unique. Only 4 stars because there is not a preface in this book. But the images are 5 starts.
Attractive images of (mostly) campesinos and landscapes of Andean Peru. While the topics are often the indigenous people, the visual approach and sparseness of the photos also strongly captures a sense of the land and the environment where they lived and worked. There is a real connection to the put for the viewer.What is also astonishing is the relative timelessness of these photos, in that the style of dress and the locations remain largely unchanged in some rural locations of Peru. One could perhaps capture related photos today - all they need is the talent, sensibilities, and eye of Robert Frank!An inspiring must-view for any photographer traveling to Peru.
The book is so beautiful, hard cover, amazing pictures and it has amazing Peruvian recipes but it’s hard to search everything! I was looking for Picarones (Peruvian Donuts) and I couldn’t search the specific recipe using the table of contents because it’s too general. It says Desserts, and then you have to go to the pages for deserts and look through all of them for the Donuts (page by page). Every recipe is categorized like that. Chicken rotisserie is not in the table of contents, you have to go to its general name such as stews, or road food, and so on just to give you an example. Something else I noticed is that the few recipes that I created were like a simpler ver compared to other Peruvian cookbook and the taste wasn’t as amazing (Donuts) as the other Peruvian cookbook I have. I felt like the Chef was keeping his secrets from us. Those 2 points definitely need some improvement.
I was eager to learn how to cook more Peruvian dishes since my girlfriend's from ston's the largest name in culinary in that rst off, the book is beautiful. Awesome cover that looks amazing in my e recipes are authentic, and they work.Why am I not giving it a five star? Because if you've ever seen a true "5 star" cookbook, you can see how small love and soul is in this 's literally a collection of stories. No techniques shared. No explaining why something is done. It feels like he has his assistant collect all his recipes, and place them into a book.
The book is impressively bound and handsome, and the contents are exhaustive. They often call for ingredients that are not readily available to me in Fresh Jersey. The one recipe I have tried was perfect and I look forward to trying more. I'm glad to have the book even though it is unlikely to become a go-to source for daily cooking.
extra content download is over 1Gb.... connection breaks down and one needs to begin the entire process again. there should be a modernize resume download feature. plus unless you obtain this extra content you cannot see the app. so i have no idea if things works yet. meanwhile the download is eating my Gb
This book is great! So a lot of recipes and the pictures create my mouth water. A must for any Peruvian-American kitchen. Disregard the comments that suggest that this book is a disappointment. A lot of people are complaining that ingredients are not easily available. Did you expect that Gaston Acurio would change the ingredients of traditional Peruvian cuisine to satisfy the American market? Not to mention that if you test just a small harder you'll search that most if not all ingredients are available at international grocery stores or Latin markets. Peruvian meal is unique, you should have known that when you bought a book containing solely Peruvian recipes. The only drawback to this book is that the translation can be lazy at times, though if you're familiar with Peruvian meal you should have no problem overcoming this. Enjoy, you won't regret this purchase.
Love this book! some say ingredients are “hard” to search haven’t been looking hard enough! lol i purchased items here on amazon if i couldn’t search it here at international grocery stores near e only down fall on this book is that i noticed some measurements were off. i’m peruvian so when i was making some items i knew right away it didn’t sound right. for example, alfajores needed like a splash of butter to create the dough... i ended up using almost 3 sticks of butter to create the dough and they came out perfect!awesome book just needs to be revised for sure!
I have spent quite a bit of time in Peru and am a fan of Gason Acurio. However, this cookbook was a disappointment to me. It seems like it was rushed to be published, and it shows. Some translations are not good and quantities listed in recipes are e worst part to me is the index. Why couldn't they also list the names of the dishes in Spanish also? For example, Lomo Saltado (one of the most ubiquitous dishes found in every Peruvian restaurant) can't be found under Lomo Saltado but instead is is listed under Stir-Frys as beef tenderloin. Causa is hidden under potatoes in the index. Rocoto Relleno is under chiles as stuffed rocoto chile. I'm still trying to figure out where there is a recipe for plata rellena much as I wanted to love this book, it is literally the latest Peruvian cookbook that I reach for when I'm looking for a recipe. I really hope someday they will edit/revise this cookbook.
I am Peruvian and it's amazing the recipes are in English. Peru has the best # 5 restaurant in the world. The meal it's promoted everywhere. If you didn't test it yet, I dare you to e book was written by one of the best ones who's dedicate his life to promote our food. Besides Indians ,as all americans think we are, which is not true. we have Machupicchu and the FOOD!
Unbelievable Inka (Inca) music, and don't forget Bolivia,a country that we all admire it's humaniustic president!,those folks are so good, I mean unbelievable in their melody with thei pan flutes, are geniuses in disguise, stop to be a racist,and have fun their giant contribution to the globe of music!.
I believe this is one of those cookbooks for which you need to spend a lot of time getting used to the style of writing the recipes and listing the ingredients, to learn how to "interpret" the recipes. So far, all of the recipes I've tried from this cookbook have either had major errors in them or have been sketchy on preparation or what constitutes a "serving." By the way, the empanada recipes say, "Serves 4." What that means is that each person can have 1 small rt of the reason that the cookbook is so thick is that some recipes are repeated: If you're making empanadas, you do not need to have the recipe for the dough repeated for each type of filling, but that's what this cookbook e Chupe de Langostinos (shrimp chowder) recipe needed quite a few changes to have flavor, according to a Peruvian cook I consulted. The estimated prep time for that recipe was grossly prepared that you will have to create a lot of ingredient substitutions. Peruvian cuisine takes advantage of fabulous ingredients that can be found no farther from Peru than, perhaps, Chile or Ecuador. Fortunately, the Internet helps you to search adequate substitutes-- adequate but not authentic.What's best about this cookbook is its appearance. Wow! True fabric on the hard-bound book, sections color-coded along the edge in shades that mirror what's in the fabric. The two woven ribbons for marking pages are sturdy and of amazing quality. I will stick with this cookbook. I'm fortunate to have a mate who's a Peruvian chef & cook to support me in making this cookbook's recipes work.
I've been very satisfied with most of the lonely planet tutorials for other countries (e.g. Greece and Slovenia), but Peru is a complete disappointment. The hotels that were suggested (e.g. Hostal el Patio, Benkawasi, Urubamba eco-lodge) and the restaurants (e.g. California Cafe in Huaraz, Cordano in Lima) are all either over-priced or of mediocre quality. I found much better options using google maps, which makes me wonder why I spent cash on this book. The only highlight was that someone stole my LP in Machu Picchu, thereby saving me dead weight for the rest of the trip.
Unbelievable Inka (Inca) music, and don't forget Bolivia,a country that we all admire it's humaniustic president!,those folks are so good, I mean unbelievable in their melody with thei pan flutes, are geniuses in disguise, stop to be a racist,and have fun their giant contribution to the globe of music!.
This book looks at the possible advanced technology that might have been used to produce and dress the large megalithic stones from ancient Peru and Boliva's temples. Most modern architects feel that the stones are attributed to the Incan. Author, David Childress thinks more with a more broad e historians and architects missing the possibilities that there was a civilization show in these countries thousand of years earlier. These ancient ones most likely had means of construction that were lost to memories during a cataclysmic happening in the e methods of construction, in this book, refer to other stones found in Tonga, Easter Island, and even Greece's past.I was intrigued by the possibilities and thoroughly enjoyed the journey.I was off-put by the numerous typos that the editor of the ebook versions made. After, I place my mindset into ignoring these errors, I truly did have fun the book. Now, I shall endeavor to purchase a copy that I can see the image photos better.
David Hatcher Childress is a amazing archeologist, and I for one am very grateful that he has researched, and written this fine book. My wife and I have been to Peru, and a lot of of the sights detailed in this book, and would strongly recommend to anyone that while they still have their health they should fly down, spend a few weeks and see for themselves Lake Titicaca, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, take a personal plane over the Nazca lines, etc.. David points out time and again what I came away with after listening to the different tour guides, "The modern archeologists don't know what they're talking about!" The Incas didn't build any of this! Who would (and with what?) chop such enormous blocks of granite to such specific dimensions, drag them down and up tremendous mountains and then fit them in so tightly that a razor blade cannot fit between any two stones? Some of these boulders weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds! Any civilization of the latest 5000 years (including modern man) does not have the capabilities to make such structures! In fact any rational civilization would conclude, "We've got to construct with 'smaller stones'!" Still, we must ponder because these stones and the formations made are 'real', "Who did this, and why?"
Reading this book makes you wonder why anyone believes the official story of the ancient civilizations of Peru and Bolivia. All you have to do is look at the numerous photographs of the ruins explored to know that these were built by a people who possessed advanced finitely a secret hiding in plain sight.
This is a amazing travel guide. We have found that these DK Eyewitness tutorials create amazing reference books for researching our travels before we obtain there, figuring out where we want to go and what to see. (We use this along with extensive research on the web, as well as other travel books and guides) but this book has more images than any other, which helps give you a visual sense that others do not. Also, it makes a nice souvenir of where we have been, along with our own photos, but with descriptions and explanations. It is one of the first travel tutorials that I look for when we decide on a destination, and I look for the most recently published, unlike some other tutorials where I might be fine with one from the latest year or so from a used book shop or the library. But these I want to keep. I bring them along with and then after the trip, we sometimes use it when we go through the hundreds of images (we are both photographers) we have taken, helping sometimes with put names or pronunciation or deeper knowledge about whatever it is.
Full of amazing recommendations for websites to visit, hotels, ping, and restaurants. Also accurate tip on taxi rates and how to avoid getting into a poor situation. We bought the kindle ver because we were tired of carrying around massive books and this worked beautiful well, You can't exactly flip through it looking for interesting stuff, but ability to run a find and the bookmarks worked well for tagging parts of interest. The weight and zone savings of this ver certainly paid off.
This is an necessary work because of the author's actual a lot of travels to the locations dealt with in this book. Not a lot of peopleever obtain to Bolivia and spend much time there. There is a wealth of information and pics about the major and minor archeological sitesthat tie in with others such as Sitchin & Posnansky, that corroborates their findings that these locations are much older than"the authorities" speculate. More importantly, the enormous sizes, precision shaping of the building blocks and theirtransport over mtns and across rivers, betrays the fingerprint of the hi-tech super-human builders who were, and still are,above and beyond anything we humans can equal. Amazing pics well done text!
I've been very satisfied with most of the lonely planet tutorials for other countries (e.g. Greece and Slovenia), but Peru is a complete disappointment. The hotels that were suggested (e.g. Hostal el Patio, Benkawasi, Urubamba eco-lodge) and the restaurants (e.g. California Cafe in Huaraz, Cordano in Lima) are all either over-priced or of mediocre quality. I found much better options using google maps, which makes me wonder why I spent cash on this book. The only highlight was that someone stole my LP in Machu Picchu, thereby saving me dead weight for the rest of the trip.
I have purchased the Eyewitness travel books for 20 years and today I received a copy that appears to be a very inferior fake copy. The colors are washed out in the photos, the pages are thin, not the same quality that they are known for. I will return this one and purchase the other Eyewitness Peru book that actually has a amazing rating. Buyer beware of this fraudulent seller
Nearly everything was 50% more expensive than they said. We went to three various restaurants recommended by this book only to search they weren't there any more (and didn't look like they had been for some time). One of them was in a not good neighborhood where our taxi driver was really e book's poorly organized and the information's spotty (for example, they tell you that fourteen websites around Cuzco are covered by a combined tourist ticket, and that some *require* the combined ticket, but don't tell which ones).We traveled in Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Lake Titicaca, and The Sacred Valley. We had the book on Kindle. You can't zoom in on the maps; not sure if that's a limitation of the Kindle (we can zoom text on it) or the book, but we couldn't really read the maps that way. Thankfully we got mobile Internet at the airport for my wife's phone (as recommended by this book, which was a very amazing tip) so we were able to use the Internet and Google Maps to obtain around and search things.
I usually obtain two tutorial books for every trip I take, Lonely Planet and DK (recently I started to test out Fodor's. I don't think I like it because its layout or format is kind of confusing. Maybe I'm not used to it yet). Compared to DK, LP is much more detailed in my opinion, but DK offers more photos. I felt compelled to write a review because I found DK is getting harder and harder to read due to its extremely little font, especially the description next to a image or illustration). Maybe I'm getting old and need reading glasses (in fact my husband said he couldn't read anything on DK, lol). After reading it for a while, my eyes just begin to damage and I don't feel like reading it anymore. I don't know why the publisher create the font so small. I would imagine older people would have a hard time reading it. BTW, I'm 41-year-young :)
I happen to love Frommer's tutorials and will defend them to the end. However...I was quite frankly disappointed in this book. There are several reasons why:1) This was the first time I purchased the Kindle/eBook ver and I just didn't think it created the cut. If you have an option I say go for the paperback. I found it a small more difficult to navigate through the electronic ver than a traditional book. With the physical books, I can thumb through various chapters and jump back and forth at will while titles and names jump out at me. The electronic ver isn't quite so easy to read randomly and I almost felt as though I had to read this cover-to-cover. Anyone who travels and uses a guidebook knows that it is not always practical to read in order.2) This book excluded quite a few locations to stay and eat. I know that for a fact because I traveled to Peru as part of a group trip and all of those info were determined for me. Prior to leaving I tried to do my diligence but quickly gave up as just about nothing was listed. If you're traveling with a group it doesn't matter where your guidebook recommends because you have no say whatsoever in where you stay or eat. Yes, I will admit that there were a few hotels and restaurants to which I would never return. However, there were a few rare gems I enjoyed that weren't mentioned at all.3) I thought this book was better used for facts about activities. If you wish to learn a small bit about several ruins and points of interest, this book will be of help. It's sad but I found better use of this tutorial AFTER I returned than I did prior to my trip. To be fair, that could just be attributed to the fact that there was now a sense of familiarity.4) I'm a small hesitant about some of the advice, most specifically the act of haggling. This Frommer's tutorial author suggested that haggling was almost the Peruvian national sport. To be fair, my group tour manager told us the same thing. HOWEVER...in certain parts of Peru that truly was not the case and sometimes you can almost feel like a e bottom line is - obtain this book only if you're part of a preplanned group trip and simply would like to do some reading on the activities you will try. It certainly isn't of much use for planning hotels and restaurants. On my flight into Lima I saw quite a few people reading the Lonely Planet series on Peru. I can't vouch for the Lonely Planet brand, but considering so a lot of people were reading it I wouldn't doubt it's more informative than Frommer's. It hurts my heart to say that because I generally love Frommer's guides, I just wasn't impressed with their book on Peru.
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I downloaded this application and that's it....it won't allow me go no where else...I can't even sign in.....
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