The best of Monocle Radio this week, including a gastronomic tour in the oldest living city in the Americas, a new French publication and what’s topping the charts in Italy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Curator on Monaco Radio with me, Fernando Gusto Pacheco.
Over the next 60 minutes, we'll be bringing you some of the very best interviews and reports from the past week.
And talking about this week, we go on a gastronomic tour of what is considered the oldest living city in the Americas.
The vibrant old city of Cusco sits at a towering altitude, making it a popular stepping stone for visitors to Machu Picchu to acclimatize.
While wandering the streets buying handcrafts or taking a photo with an alpaca is fun, locals know that the real gem is the cuisine.
Plus what's stopping the charts in Italy.
He's one of those men who does those super macho things where he's like, I love weapons, yet still thinks that wearing slides is a big thing.
Is it a good look?
Is this a thing?
Should we.
I haven't seen you in slides.
Not a good look, but I like the beats.
All that and much more in the next hour here on the Curator with me, Fernando Gustava Secu.
We start the show with a highlight from the briefing.
Not content with its extensive expansion into Africa, South America has become a major target of influence by China.
The Chinese president Xi Jinping was in Peru where he joined the APEC meeting, but he was also there to cut the ribbon on a major Chinese owned megaport on the Pacific.
Earlier this week, we were joined by William Yang, journalist based in Taipei, and by Andrew Thompson, journalist and political risk analyst specializing in Latin America.
Well, essentially it's a brilliant deal for Peru.
It will be Latin America's largest deepwater port.
It will deal with up to a million containers a year.