Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-04
copyrighted, 1898. by Frank G. Car

Lima, Itihf -
,r,erican minister and myself
.nent this morning in the markets OIL
lima. We met at the market mouse at
m. and ate our dlceuno at niue
.ostaurant Just off the main aisle.
,e,,o,po ia what the Peruvians call
MAR first meal. 1t is taken on rising
"a consists of two little pieces OF
.o,st and a cup of coffee or tea. Inc
.oi breakfast Is not taken until IL or
40 o'clock. and dinner does not come
,,,til or in the evening. The MN
,ster and myself are afflicted win soou
American appetites and we pieceo OUT
,be meal with two punches OF white
,ranes. each of which was as Dig as
,,o,r head, the grapes themselves being
al large as damson plums. our meal
,,os most democratic one. The tapie
1yos large, and we had hardly taken
,,, coats before an Indian woman with
= broad trimmed Panama hat coming
VOL down over her bronzed features
ao,,r onposite us, and ordered an
,oo cream which was served In
champagne glass. Then poch-
marked Peruvian of the lower class
toott n seat at the table for his choco-
late. and Just as we were about to
,oave n fnt old negress wearing piack
,norto or shawl which covered the
whole of the upper part OF her body
and all of her head excepting her face,
slid down into chair beside me-
While we were eating we were besieged
by pedders of various kinds, from
rs tickets
TO men who had for sale waxen images
of the VIRGIN Mary dressed in the latest
modern styles. All about us were the
queer characters which make up the
lower classes of the Peruvian capital
There were cooks by the hundreds buy
ing their marketing for the day. Some
We're Chinese, some negroes and many
were Peruvians with the yellow skins
which show that they are product OF
the native Indians and the Spanish.
There were scores of women dressed
all in black with only their faces show
ing out of their black shawls. There
were many market women in calico
dresses wearing straw hats, and not
few queer people from the mountains
who looked about with eyes of wonder
at their first sight of the great city.
The crowd numbered thousands, anc
1t was the busiest crowd l have seen
In Peru.
A LAND OF FAT THINGS.
Peru is land of fat things. There
are really so many wonderful products
here that ! hesitate to describe them
for fear l may not be believed. What
would you think of string beans as
long as your arm? We saw lots of
them at the vegetable stands. They
were tied up in punches and hung upon
poles. We saw potatoes as yellow as
gold. These are the papas amarillas
of Peru. which are bright yellow
when cooked. We saw sweet potatoes
of many kinds, some of which were as
big as the yams of America. Then
there were quantities of yucca. tuber
which grows about two feet long, and
which Is as big around as n base ball
club. 1t is not unlike the potato. but
the flesh is more transparent, waxy
and jelly-like. This is one of the CHIEF
foods of Peru. We saw roasting ears
at nearly every vegetable stand, ana
in the grain markets handled varieties
OF corn which l have never seen at
home. Some of the corn was as black
as ink and another kind WAS of a light
yellow, with grains almost as big as a
Lima bean. These two varieties are SO
mealy that you can make -four of
them by pounding them with n stone.
They come from the mountain farms,
and to great extent form the food of
that part Of Peru We saw squashes
and melons of all kinds Many of the
vegetables / could not understand, and
the fruits embraced those which are
grown in the tropics, as well as apples,
peaches and pears. The apples were
not good, however, and most of the
peaches we saw We're of the clingstone
Kind. The best fruits are the grapes
the ohiremoya, which is as big as
naval orange and which tastes little
like ice cream; the palta, which is
eaten as salad or an appetizer, with
vinegar, salt and pepper and which
mas flesh not unlike that of stiff but
ter; the blue and white figs, which
grow In all the coast valleys, and
bananas of many kinds and different
varieties OF oranges. lines and lemons.
Then they have here guavas, pome- |
granates, tunas, the fruit of the cac-
tus, and olives, which are picked in |
such a way that when they come TO |
the table they are black and soft rather !
thnn green and solid. like the olives we |
eat.
SOME QUEER PERUVIAN DISHES.
ON the whole. the living here is yer, !
good: You viii not find in Washington |
or New York a better meat and FISH |
market than that of Lima. The meats |
aIe largely sold by women. and the |
women seem to have monopollzed the |
milk' meat and vegetable trade OF this |
wy; The steaks and chops are very |
good and you can buy little kid or a !
nat dozen guinea pigs for a tribe. The |
lvtuNlans are very fond of kids, and |
EuheA pigs are a delicacy not to be |
sheeIed at They taste much like |
E1uhg pigeons or very tender squirrels,
,they are raised and fattened for eat
ttilg an about here and nearly every |
iarlnsr Keeps guinea pig pen.
another queer dish is fish cooked by
putting cold lemon Juice on it. It is
,ieally raw fish served with lemon juice.
uHt the lemon has much the same
cugct ON the flesh OF the fish as bolllns,
and have number of times smacked
my ms over what I thought was the
most delicious boiled fish / had even I
eaten TO flnd that 1t was fish a In
SmrViehe, that Is raw fish and lemon
me me hsh OF this coast are delicious
i,hey are of nearly every kind from,
Sne sole to the corbina, which is very
urge and sweet heshed fish not unlike
ane blue fish of the Atlantic, though OF
n more delicious flavor. l tried the
PERUVIAN oysters at the National Club
,ouay. They were brought in par
,uolled on the half shell. did not like
POTATOES AND PEPPER.
-, There Is no place that / have yet
VISITED which has 20 much pepper ana
potatoes upon Its tables as / find here.
~ is said that the Peruvians eat more
Pepper than salt They serve II with
nnvlrly every dish, aud you always
nhd little dish OF all pronounced
ah'he) sort OF red pepper paste be-
slue your plate ready for use as you
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