Elevating Unknown Ingredients In Peru
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Since he was young, Virgilio Martinez has wanted to travel, see and taste the world. It's the same relentless curiosity he brings to Lima's Central Restaurant, where he works as a chef. Here, Virgilio and his colleagues take often overlooked ingredients from across Peru's vast territory and turn them into an "elevations menu." The culinary journey imagines ecosystems as dishes, moving from below sea level to high in the Andes and back down to the Amazon over the course of a single, imaginative meal. The innovative approach has earned Central a place on the prestigious "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" list.
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I love the attitude of that cook. He is not afraid to push gastronomic boundaries. He is so open to trying ingredients he had never cooked before.
I was here in December, super cool place
Go watch his episode on Chef's Table on Netflix. A longer and more detailed version of this video. Amazing chef and concept.
At minute 1:42 he said "we use the coca leaf" not the "cocoa leaf" they are two very different things.
Yeah. That's the ingredient for coca cola.
Stupid editor
@@DBT1007 that's used to make cocaine
@@DBT1007 Hey, can you just be a little bit respectful? Just try to keep your temper down, alright? Good?
@@qwertstrewq actually some people misuse the leaf and make cocaine
@@DBT1007 Coca Cola in fact was a medicine made out of Coca and Cola leaves but not anymore. I think they still import Coca leaves but they use Neroli oil in their 7x instead of Coca and they use caffeine instead of Cola.
No such thing as a bad or mediocre video here, ever.
Moxie Beast ASMR amen
Amazing country with incredible folks and culture. Please protect and treasure your fourth largest rainforest on the planet.🌎
I'm really glad Peru is re-discovering their local produce.
As someone said in the comments, it's also great how the cook pushes gastronomical boundaries.
However, fine dining is not really my cup of tea. I'm curious to know how much the average Peruvian know and how do they use these local and ancient produce in their daily meals?
At the end of the day is very expensive to eat in this fine diners, in every country they are in even in Europe. But you really don't understand the scope of peruvian ingredients and sources: They are endless. Most stuff isn't that expensive like caviar so most peruvians can get the ingredients for cheap, altough this ingredients are very local and peruvian cuisine is very diverse and saturated
@@Monki_29 thanks for your reply, Scooby. How well are the uses of these resources documented in Peru? E.g. cookbooks, medicinal uses. Since the uses are endless, I'd imagine there must be ways to keep the knowledge alive.
@@Jambalayajoe well a lot of the ingredients are very well documented, the ones that they the natives have been using for years. The native status and culture in Peru isn't as dire as in the US, peru has va vibrant andean population that have integrated spanish influence with milenial andean, so it's not that in the reign of food and medicine the practices have been lost. However, In the amazon region it's a little bit different, because that's where the giantness of the quantity of medicinal herbs and saps expands tendfold. I don't know how much of it is documented or how much knowledge have been lost over the years but theres' people to this day implementing medicinal holistic herbs (like ayahuasca) which is knowledge passed down.
I'd like to add that the problem with this view of "rediscovering" ... they say that because they want to be resepctful. But for some specific ingredients they do is in fact discover, for example the moss that lives in muddy ponds in the highlands and has never been used by the natives, they harvest it and use it in their Restaurant. i'm sure there's many of such examples in centrla
I'm glad to hear that the knowledge is being passed down and new uses are being discovered. I appreciate that the scientists were quite humble about this.
Perhaps it is the mere pursuit of palatable sensations that bothers me. Nourishment, medicine, textile and less futile ends (in a sustainable way) are more appealing, don't you think?
Anyways, keep using your local produce, average Peruvians. That is how your beautiful culture lives on.
Thanks Scooby for your valuable pieces of information. You've been truly wonderful.
Love peru 😘
Im peruvin and i think cousine and gastronomy are our most valuable trassure, we have so much cultural mixture of all arround the world besides the diversity of our land. If u ever come to Peru u better ivest in some good food!
Please don't stop making videos GBS!
raine potatoes wait are they about to end this channel?
I think this is one of the most beautiful videos you guys have made :)
I'm actually going to be in Peru this summer
Picking up that shipment?😊
Peyton Bell nope, go wild Peru to collect native and endangered species of Freshwater fish to breed to expand and save the species
Eyecat15 thanks! I'm gonna need it lol
Old Turtle What’s your job?
GarrusN7 I'm 13, so I don't have a job. But I breed fish to sell, and I use methods of rapid propagation to grow aquarium plants to sell. I also heavily investigate how aquarium brands make expensive products that are practical to pursue at home. For instance, ADA aquasoil, a very expensive substrate for aquariums plants. It's just soil that is binded together to have solid properties, and then baked at a low temperature for a while to make it last underwater longer
This is amazing.
& I'm sitting here eating hot peppers from Wawa 😂
Lmao
Hate it when people pretend to “discover never before used” things, in this case, ingredients, when they have been a part of indigenous cultures for centuries, and developed by them through extensive breeding and selection. I like what she says. These ingredients aren’t discovered, but they themselves are just learning about them for the first time. The chef, is full of himself.
agreed. (ppl from lima tend to b full of themselves for some reason)
Went last year, it’s a beautiful country but the quality of life is very poor so I hope that they develop and also protect their rainforest.
we must say our rainforest. Its disappearance will affect all of us in this planet. it is very sad that Peruvians don`t care. it is a big laboratory !!!!. It is a blessed country with no leaders nor good politicians.
Looks so yummy delicious great job great video
Omg it all looks so good, and idk what any of that stuff is! I wanna try it all! I love veggies so much
MOM PACK YOUR BAGS
We are going to eat food from Peru
Inviting mom to have dinner with you!?........you're a damn fine human being 😊💯....🌹 put that in mom hair for you guys dinner 😊
I have got to go here!
Im from Peru!
Ngl that clay looks delicious
Came for the ingredients, but stayed for the amazing scenery. Didn't hear a damn word after I saw those fields inside the mountains.
make this a new segment or whatever it's called. I mean, going around the world and making videos just like this, about the unknown ingredients of each country. Everyone has its uniqueness
So truthful
Im early but i don't know what to comment. So i ended up commenting this.
hyped for the Joker movie
It's like an edible dissertation. Incredible.
Please change the title. She even specifies they are not discovering these ingredients, they have been used for centuries.
"Unknown," as in the general public. Do you know all the spices they are showing? I sure do not, so the tittle fits.
Wow that's good Boi
Dad let's go to Peru for dinner! Dad?
No son ! Let’s order a pizza .
We're poor son
Please do a story about Yerba mate!!
why? that's so 2008.
yes!!
his netflix episode is amazing
can you guys do something with Ecuador??
Please make video about Barney Smith Toilet Museum ❤️❤️❤️
Where’s my Peruvians?
Over here!
YAO MING
Were are my Peruvians at?
Comment this guy is awesome
A fine dining place called Central? Is this Shokugeki no Souma? XD
Right? Souma gotta take down central after all.
La Federacion! (Call of duty Ghosts)
Please tell me who you are. The kind Soul who liked my comment 22 minutes ago?
Gourmet hunter
will they trade a meal for my data?
What to say when bae makes dinner.
While I respect Virgilio's culinary and business genius, I find his desire to showcase Peruvian ingredients jingoistic and hypocritical. Peru has a very old culture that is heavily native, whose people are consistently underpowered and poor, while a minority of "Blanquiñosos" rule and enjoy huge benefits. Virgilio belongs to a class of Peruvians who get to travel and study abroad, and who embrace Peruvian values whenever it is convenient to them. He embraces Peruvian ingredients, not Peruvian people.
Yey Im early
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it's not unknown in Peru....
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why does spanish speaking women sound older than they look?
No, she just have a very deep voice, I'm peruvian and her voice is really deep for an average peruvian woman.
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