(foto REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil)
World-famous opera tenor Juan Diego Flórez, visiting his native Peru before his wedding this weekend, made his cooking debut on Wednesday with a Peruvian-Italian fusion dish called "Shrimp a la Pavarotti."
Dressed in a white chef's shirt at a restaurant overlooking Lima's Pacific Ocean waters, Florez whipped up a shrimp flambe in a sauce of orange juice and balsamic vinegar to pay homage to the late opera great Luciano Pavarotti.
Thankfully, shrimp haven't got any bones in them!
(We suspect Big Luciano would have eaten the shrimp whole, raw, making some whale-like happy noises. And the Lord bless his soul for that)
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Super-reader Chris sent OC an online gallery stuffed with dozens more shots of Flórez showing his skillz in the kitchen. Go here!!
