Turrón de Doña Pepa is named after Josefa Marmanillo, an enslaved Afro-Peruvian woman known as Doña Pepa, who according to tradition created the recipe in the eighteenth century after being miraculously cured of paralysis through her devotion to Señor de los Milagros — the Lord of Miracles, the most venerated religious image in Peru. In […]

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Suspiro limeño means “sigh of Lima” — the name comes from the poet José Gálvez, whose wife Amparo Ayarza created the dessert and described its texture as so light it dissolved like a sigh. The name stuck and the dessert became one of the most recognized sweets in Peruvian criolla cuisine — the mestizo culinary […]

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