Traditional Food
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Quinoa with Cheese Delights in Cuzco
Quinoa is grown in the Andes of Peru and Bolivia up to around 4000 meters above sea level. Just like…
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The Best Flavor in Cuzco’s Cooking Still Comes from the Batán, the Grinding Stones.
If you make a hot sauce on what we in Cuzco call a batán, a grinding stone, you obtain the…
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Chaufa, Fried Rice, Claims Peruvian Palates Day and Night
Rice colorfully dressed in brown, due to black vinegar and soy sauce, along with sparkling vegetables make a festival of…
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Wild Mushroom Capchi
Capchi is simply one of Cuzco’s favorite foods. This is not only a land where people love guinea pig, pork,…
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The Ingredients of Humintas are Key
It is not enough to talk about the history of humintas going back to Inca times and earlier, but to…
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Lechón Captivates Cuzco from Generation to Generation
Inheritor of exquisite recipes and the tradition of making and selling the classic food of Cuzco, Mrs. María can regularly…
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International Year of Quinoa Begins
Tiny and multitudinous, quinoa stands as an intriguing symbol of wealth. But its greatest wealth may well be the unusually…
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Pork, the Good Luck Meat for New Years
The people of Cuzco receive the new year by eating the “good luck meat”, pork, in one of its traditional…
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Conflict over Panetones Rises
One cannot imagine Christmas in Peru with out the sweet, fruited bread called panetón. It is eaten by almost everyone…
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Chef’s Sunday: Arroz con Pollo Infuses a Green Horizon
If my mother were to ask me what dish I wanted for lunch I would ask her to make an…
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