Chile serves up lamb from 'the end of the world'

Lamb lovers will have a field day soon - a field week, even - when the Chilean embassy sponsors its annual gastronomic week at a Beijing hotel.

This year's theme is Patagonia in Peking, featuring guest chef Jorge Luksic from the southern tip of Chile, a region made famous thanks to several best-selling books by writers like Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin.

"Patagonia has a great mystique - it's the end of the world, the last frontier," says Chile's ambassador to China, Jorge Heine, who notes that the majestic Andes mountains literally collapse into the ocean at the tip of South America.