Peruvian chefs

Franco Noriega Haltenhof (born January 16, 1989) is a Peruvian entrepreneur based in New York who has branched out into the restaurant business, modelling, television, and the music industry. He is also a retired professional swimmer.
Noriega started swimming competitively at a young age, eventually representing Peru at various international sporting events. After retiring from his swimming career, he moved to New York City in 2007 and started modelling. He has since also opened his own restaurant, BABY BRASA, which focusses on organic Peruvian cuisine and catering. Noriega has hosted several television programs on the Food Network, and has appeared as a culinary guest on various talk shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and The Wendy Williams Show. In 2017, Noriega ventured into the music industry with his debut single "Me Aceleras." Noriega released his second single, "Tu Llamada", in 2019.

Pedro Miguel Schiaffino is a Peruvian chef who has worked to highlight the foods of the Amazon jungle and Amazonian cuisine.
Schiaffino's restaurant in Lima, Peru is called Malabar. He is also executive chef aboard the M/V Aqua. Schiaffino is known as the "jungle chef" and has been compared to René Redzepi.Schiaffino graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, in 1997 and did Masters work at the Italian Culinary Institute. While in Italy he at Dal Pescatore under chef Nadia Santini and with Piero Bertinotti at Ristorante Pinocchio.Ingredients he uses include kushuru (Andean caviar), algae, aguaje (a slightly fermented palm fruit), giant snails, sacha culantro (a type of wild coriander), turmeric, achiote, guinea pig and Andean corn beer. He also uses quinoa and seasonings including cedrón, toronjil, muña, sachatomate, and aguaymanto.His menu offerings have included dishes such as:

Tuna brulé with cocona-lime juice and tobiko wild caigua with scallops, Andean seaweed, and maca root (known as Andean Viagra)
Fish ceviche with tumbo
Paiche with masato and black tapioca
Arroz con pato (Spanish rice with duck)
Copoazu and green melon
Lucuma and deep fried "truffles"

Alejandro Saravia is a Peruvian chef who was born in Lima, Peru on June 13, 1982, and has lived in Australia since 2006. He is the co-owner and Executive Chef at Farmer's Daughters in Melbourne and Victoria by Farmer's Daughters in Fed Square, Melbourne.
Saravia studied marketing at university and worked as a brand manager before following his passion for food to train as a chef. He travelled the world for many years, embracing many different cultures and styles of cuisine and honing his chef skills while working at renowned restaurants such as Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck and Les Ambassadeurs (Paris), Pier Restaurant, Salon Blanc, Opera Bar and Sails Restaurant at Lavender (Lavender Bay) in Sydney.
Since 2007 Alejandro has also run his own company, “A taste of PERú” [1] which demonstrates and educates foodies in the ingredients, flavours and cooking methods of Peru through degustation nights of Modern Peruvian Cuisine, Cooking Classes and Gourmet tours to his home country.
Alejandro Saravia has contributed to many events such as the “Peruvian Fiesta at the Intercontinental” (2008); the Maritime Museum’s “Food Festival Lima City of Kings” (2008) and “Food Festival Pacific on a Plate” (2007), as well as featuring as part of the Electrolux Cooking School in Melbourne with his Peruvian Master Classes (2010). He will also be continuing his classes at The Electrolux Cooking School in 2011 with three classes from August 19–21.
Alejandro has featured on Channel Ten's The Circle, [2], SBS Television's Food Safari SBS - Ceviche segment, with his signature Ceviche dish, on Mornings with Kerri-Anne (Channel Nine) to promote Peruvian Cuisine and recently filmed a segment for Getaway (Channel NINE) with Jules Lund which aired on July 5, 2011 Click Here to view episode.\
In both 2018 and in January 2019, Alejandro was invited to represent his Farmer’s Daughters concept as part of the esteemed AO Chef Series at the Australian Open.
Alejandro is a 2021 ambassador for the Dine Smart initiative by Street Smart Australia.