Gastón Acurio

Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (* 30 October 1967) is a peruvian chief cook and an important representative of peruvian cuisine. He is owner of international restaurants and author of several example books. Besides he has his own television broadcast in Peru and cooperated in several magazines.

Life

Gastón Acurio Jaramillo was born as a son of Gastón Acurio Velarde and Jesús Jaramillo Razuri. He was the only son and had four older sisters.

After a broken off law studies in Lima he learned de Madrid in Europe at the hotel trade school Sol in Spain and to Le Cordon Bleu into Paris cooking. There he became acquainted with his later wife Astrid Gut (* 1969), originaly from Germany.

In 1994, he returned with it to Peru and began more exactly to study and use for Gourmet the kitchen the native kitchen of its country. It was considerably involved in the development of the so-called Cocina Novoandina . Today it belongs to S. to the most renowned cook of Latin America.

Restaurant Franchises

Gastón Acurio is a truly peruvian visionary, who has put all his effort in rediscovering the peruvian cuisine and developping ideas to offer in restaurants all typical peruvian meals in a modern and attractive way. As a result, he has turned this ideas into reality by creating various and successful restaurant franchises that focus on a specific category of the peruvian cuisine.

Along with his wife Astrid, he manages since 1994 the restaurant franchise Astrid & Gastón which opened originally in the district of Miraflores in Lima. This franchise has expanded over the years in Latin America and recently in Europe, opening restaurants in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Quito, Caracas, Panamá and Madrid.

The cafe del Museo lies in the art-historical museum Rafael Larco Herrera in Lima. The Café was arranged by the architect Jordi Puig.

The confectionery and pralinerie T'anta were opened in 2003. T'anta comes from Quechua and it means bread.

La Mar is one Cevichería in Lima. Its specialty is peruvian seafood.

The latest and most comercially succesful franchise Pasquale Hnos. opened in late 2006 in Lima. It's a fast food restaurant which specialty are peruvian Sandwiches, traditionally known as sanguches .

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