John F. Kennedy park

This guide to John F. Kennedy park in Lima follows Pablo Valverde and his wife Maria Gonzales, who arrived from Puquio in the Andes with a cart and a recipe for picarones and won a mayor's dessert contest that came with a lifetime concession in the park. Their stall, Picarones Mary, became a fixture here for over two decades, winning a national food festival prize and drawing a Netflix crew. Listen for the smell of street food and the calls of the vendors still working this same stretch.