Mistura festival 2013 Mistura is Peru's largest gastronomy fair, with restaurants setting up stalls to showcase their speciality dishes and producers demonstrating their region's finest fare. The food fair takes on a celebratory, festival-vibe come night, with music performances and entertainment to as you wash down Peru's hearty food with local drinks. Visiting Mistura Festival After waiting to get inside, we waited in line for tickets for food, and then we waited in line for food with our tickets. They gave us brightly colored maps to navigate the venue spanning some 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) along Lima’s Costa Verde de Magdalena. Many resourcefully turned their maps into hats to protect their heads from the sun which was shining down unexpectedly this past Sunday. To get a sense of the size, take a look at this video that gives a virtual tour of 2013’s Mistura venue. Though it was my first time at Peru’s international gastronomic fair, this year marks the sixth Mistura since 2008. It has increased in size and duration since the first fair which lasted a paltry three days with a total of 30,000 people passing through the Cuartel San Martin in Miraflores. Since the first Mistura, the fair has changed location and scope such that this year, the host of the event, the Peruvian Society of Gastronomy (Apega) reported that by the end of the first weekend of the fair, some 101,742  people had attended. It was a 10% increase from 2012. Food & Drink from across peru The venue was sprawling. There was every type of Peruvian food that any non-Peruvian, and probably most Peruvians, could possibly imagine or ever desire. There was a Mundo (world) for everything: coffee, bread, quinua, anticuchos  (beef heart kebabs), sánguches  (sandwiches),  de las brasas  (grill), oriental, ceviche, líquidos and tabernas y bares