Pedro Miguel Schiaffino

Pedro Miguel Schiaffino is a Peruvian chef who has worked to highlight the foods of the Amazon jungle and Amazonian cuisine.

[2] Schiaffino is known as the "jungle chef" and has been compared to René Redzepi.

While in Italy he at Dal Pescatore under chef Nadia Santini and with Piero Bertinotti at Ristorante Pinocchio.

[1] 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.

[3] He also uses quinoa and seasonings including cedrón, toronjil, muña, sachatomate, and aguaymanto.