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Before there was talk of a global south, or an Inquisition, before even the Conquistadores set sail for the new world, there were ancient peoples taking raw fish off the Atlantic coast of Peru "cooked" with just a bit of acid, later citrus, in fishermen's hamlets.
Barranco is named after an upscale, beachside, bohemian district of the Peruvian capital Lima. As a country very much at the crossroads of Asia and the Americas, its cuisine is perhaps one of the original fusion foods of this earth.
During the eighth month, we rest.
The arepa pabell贸n is itself a super Venezuelan combination of two dishes: pabell贸n criollo, the national dish of shredded beef stew with rice, beans and fried plantains and arepas, the corn bread patties that serve as the foundational layer of a northern Latin American sandwich.
La Arepera is standard fare from the Venezuelan community in exile... At La Arepera in Basel, though, things are pared down to the essentials: the corn meal bun, fully loaded, with meat and a bit of cheese.
