Artika ice cream parlour in Arequipa, Peru
In most of the larger cities in Peru the weather is mild all year long, so eating an ice cream is always good. The ice cream tradition in Peru probably comes from Italian inmigrants but now everyone enjoys them.
D'Onofrio's ice cream parlour in Miraflores, Lima, Peru
The first big ice cream company in Peru, called D’Onofrio, was founded by Italian immigrants and was developed into a big compan. They are still called D’Onofrio but now the brand belongs to a transnational corporatation. They sell ice iream in little trolleys, and on bicycles and they also have ice cream parlours called ‘heladerias’, or ‘gelaterias’ in Italian that just sell ice iream in many flavours and presentations. Ice cream flavours in Peru are very exotic, one of the most popular is lucuma flavour, a fruit originally from Peru that has a flavour like a mix of toffee, maple syrup and even sweet potato. My mother has a lucuma tree in her garden so we used to make our own sometimes.
You can always find an ice cream man in Arequipa
But apart from D’Onofrio there are many more brands of ice cream and many very posh gelaterias that they are really like restaurants where eating an ice cream is a lovely experience because they are so sophisticated and incredibly tasty.
People go to a heladeria or a gelateria with a friend and order an Ice Cream and have a long chat and enjoy every spoonfull of it.
D'Onofrio have some very creative ice creams for kids
There are very interesting ice creams for kids in the shapes of boats and clowns, ice cream with sweets, fruit, biscuits, etc. There is no limit to what these people can do with Ice Cream!
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