Food & Drinks
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Corn, Squash, and Potatoes for the Saints on Holy Thursday
Ears of corn and freshly harvested potatoes were placed yesterday midday in the Temple of San Sebastian, a suburban and…
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Thorns, Fish, and Beer: Two Realities
Fires will burn on Cuzco’s hilltops Thursday night, after which many people will fast and eat traditional food, while others…
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Pork with Mint where the River Narrows, Saylla
Along highways throughout Peru different towns specialize in different food. As a result, traveling is to eat your way…
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Strawberries and Chicha, a Deliciously Complex Marriage
As the rainy season draws to a close, many things will change in Cuzco. The skies will no longer share…
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Women Warriors, Corn, and Humintas
Like potatoes, corn may be a crop which plagues modern people with an excess of sugars in its contemporary omnipresence. But in…
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Incas Come from the Ground like Potatoes
Dark and rich, like the night, the earth and its produce filled the background of Inca life. Even when the…
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To Dance with the Corn Flowers
Spring has begun, where I write, like the tentative pushing of daffodil buds above ground, but in Cuzco the rains…
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Tamales on the Plaza, A Cuzco Tradition
Not only the millennial cradle of the Inca Empire and the imposing Machu Picchu, Cuzco also gave birth to the…
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Ceviche, History’s Treasure
Exotic, exquisite, and yet sharp; that is how many describe ceviche. But that is only one way. The dish…
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