In comparison, she said, the guinea pigs raised on alfalfa and vegetable peels in 98 percent of rural households in the Peruvian Andes weigh up to 1.5 pounds.

Rodents are generally the last things most restaurant owners want in their kitchen. But in the larger cities of Peru, chefs are practically fighting over guinea pigs in a restaurant craze that is ...

Old Trading, a Lima company that exports Peruvian food, particularly to countries with large Peruvian immigrant populations, ships up to 1000 of the new guinea pigs to the US and Japan every week.

Urubamba, a Peruvian restaurant in Queens, wasn't serving guinea pig at all eight years ago. Since then, demand has climbed every year, according to Carlos Atorga, who opened Urubamba in 1976.

Old Trading, a Lima company that exports Peruvian food, ships up to 1,000 of the new guinea pigs to America and Japan every week, and said that it means to include Britain in its export market.

Bedoya believes there is a market for guinea pig at Peruvian restaurants, like this north Houston eatery. But for now it's not on area menus.

Denver doesn't have many Peruvian restaurants, much less ones that serve guinea pig, which this reader enjoyed on her trip to Peru.

Guinea pigs may be seen as pets in the UK, but in Peru they are an increasingly popular delicacy.

Guinea pig poop powers Peruvian villages The residents of Pachacamac, a Peruvian village outside Lima, have almost one thousand fluffy, tailless guinea pigs in an enclosure.

Peruvian farmers talk to a staff member of the aid group World Neighbors about getting a loan to invest in their guinea pig farm.

Jason Woods, the nonprofit's Americas regional program assistant, says guinea pigs — which he says usually weigh no more than 2 pounds — are twice as efficient as cows at turning food, like hay and ...