The best typical dishes of Peru

The gastronomy of Peru is one of the most diverse in the world, as evidenced by the fact that it is the country with the largest number of typical dishes in the world, adding these 491 and according to several experts it reaches a level equivalent to that of French, Chinese and India. Peruvian cuisine results from the initial fusion of the culinary tradition of ancient Peru - with its own techniques and potions - with Spanish cuisine in its variant most strongly influenced by 762 years of Moorish presence in the Iberian Peninsula and with important contribution of customs Culinary brought from the Atlantic coast of sub-Saharan Africa by slaves. Subsequently, this miscegenation was influenced by the culinary uses and customs of French chefs who fled the revolution in their country to settle, in good numbers, in the capital of the viceroyalty of Peru. Equally important was the influence of nineteenth-century immigration, which included Cantonese Chinese, Japanese and Italian, among other mainly European origins. As an exclusive feature of the cuisine of Peru, there are foods and flavors from four continents in a single country and, this, since the second half of the nineteenth century. Peruvian culinary arts are constantly evolving and this, coupled with the variety of traditional dishes, makes it impossible to establish a complete list of their representative dishes. It is worth mentioning that along the Peruvian coast there are more than two thousand five hundred different types of soups, there are also more than 250 traditional desserts. The great variety of Peruvian cuisine is based on three