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Cuisine

Latin American Sunday dinners

A deliberately broad heading covering the cooking of a dozen countries that share ingredients — maize, beans, chiles, citrus — and differ sharply in how they use them. The plans here keep the regional character rather than averaging it: an Argentine grill, a Peruvian ceviche and a Venezuelan arepa night are three different dinners, not three versions of one.

6 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What Latin American plans look like

Most common mains

  • beef2
  • chicken1
  • lamb1
  • pork1
  • shellfish1

How they're cooked

  • Grilled2
  • Pan-seared2
  • Baked1
  • Breaded & fried1

The plans

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