A taste for exotic food or, all that foreign muck…

Alpaca, guinea pig and creamed sweetcorn: It has taken me until my fifth decade and to be living in Peru to eat these three things for the very first time. And I have to report that in all honesty, creamed sweetcorn is the one I will be giving a wide berth to in future. Alpaca fillet with chilli sauce, sautéed alpaca, alpaca brochette or flash-fried alpaca steak are all delicious, and what’s more the flesh of this cutesy long-lashed camelid is one of the healthiest meats you can cons…