Javier Jimenez Morales: And yet it is! In Peru, it's served at small kiosks, where a cook brings out their ready-made components: chopped fish, leche de tigre sauce, sweet potatoes and white corn. AUDOIN DESFORGES FOR LE MONDE In France, people don't think of ceviche as a street food dish.

Claudia Perez Vasquez-Solis and Javier Jimenez Morales, in their restaurant The 3 Musketeers, Paris, June 30, 2023. A scholarship took her to Spain, then Paris, where she met Morales, whom she decided to support in her restaurant project, with one idea in mind: to serve quality street food, just like in Lima, where they were both born. Perez Vasquez-Solis, 30, studied at the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Lima. He set up his own pastry shop in Peru and worked in gourmet restaurants in Japan before settling in Paris. Jimenez Morales, 37, studied cooking and restaurant management. This discreet restaurant in Paris's Latin Quarter is primarily designed for delivery or takeaway, but there's a tiny counter allowing those in no rush to eat this dish as they would in Peru: standing up and on the go. To introduce the French palate to 'real' Peruvian ceviche, Javier Jimenez Morales and Claudia Perez Vasquez-Solis have opened The 3 Musketeers. Is ceviche a street food dish? In France, it's hard to imagine, as it's best known as a refined, low-fat appetizer. Subscribers only Claudia PÉREZ VASQUEZ-SOLIS and Javier JIMENEZ MORALES in their restaurant The Three Musketeers, Paris, June 30, 2023. In Paris, Javier Jimenez Morales and Claudia Perez Vasquez-Solis serve ceviche as they do in Lima: as fresh as can be, for eating on the go, but with a little less spice, to suit the French palate.īy Elvire von Bardeleben Published on July 21, 2023, at 2:01 pm (Paris), updated on July 21, 2023, at 3:18 pm Six chefs reveal how they have adapted a basic foreign dish to French tastes and ingredients. 'Ceviche in Peru is everywhere, all the time'

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