Let’s admit at the start. Despite the overkill of food-meets-travel shows on air, our gluttony for these telly-fests continues with hawk-like precision. In this pursuit, our luck has yo-yoed. We’ve encountered drab travelogues about beaten-to-death destinations, made worse by new accented, clueless hosts. But, we’ve also hit bulls-eye with well-researched documentaries, where even a heavy dose of geography doesn’t intimidate.

In search of our weekly virtual culinary vacation, Peru caught the eye. We loosened our seat belts. The nation’s capital, Lima, we assumed, would be the obvious location for this episode. It wasn’t. Instead, our host, a young, homegrown chef of one of the country’s top five-star restaurants was embarking on a long journey into the Andes Mountains — a quest to introduce his patrons to a lesser-known cooking technique being practiced by Incan tribes for centuries.