Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Peruvian chefs serve up world's largest ceviche.

Two words: YUUUU-UUUM! (Thanks Jen!) From the Washington Post:
CALLAO, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian chefs, elbow deep in more than six tons of sliced fish, onions and lime, won on Sunday the Guinness World Record for preparing the largest ceviche, a Peruvian seafood specialty.

The classic dish, made from raw fish and a spicy citrus sauce that "cooks" it, weighed in at 6.8 tons, 2 tons more than the previous record.

Some 450 students and chefs worked in an open-air sports stadium in Callao, a working-class district near Peru's capital -- slicing, dicing and mixing white fish with lime, salt, onions and aji peppers.

[...] Hundreds of people from the neighborhood waited outside the Callao stadium for a plate of food.

"A Peruvian who does not eat ceviche is not Peruvian," said Espinoza.

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