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Recipes
A Hardy Pea Stew (Ají de Arvejas) Warms up Cold Days
A Hearty Pea Stew for a Cold Day It was a revelation on a plate, a simple stew of dried…
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Traditional Food
A Classic of Cusco, Cucumber Salad
Cucumber, Fresh Salad Homemade Cusco’s food is good and agreeable. We have a variety of dishes in which any person…
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Events
Cebiche-Style Sweet Potatoes (Yams) for Thanksgiving
Four Different Kinds of Sweet Potatoes in Utah Without Peru we would have no Thanksgiving in the United States. The…
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Food & Drinks
Sassy Ladies Who Bring Worlds Together, Cusco’s Rocoto Peppers
Red, fat, and sassy, the rocoto pepper claims tables and palates throughout Cusco. In a recent ethnographic overview of hot peppers…
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Do Peru’s Hot Peppers Contribute to High Rates of Gallbladder Cancer?
I love hot peppers and have since I was a little boy. The first time I ate them, when I…
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Food & Drinks
Skewers of Meat, Anticuchos, Build Memories in Cusco
Anticuchos hold memories for the people of Cusco. They remind them of moments of fiesta lived in our city where…
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Ingredients
Cuzco’s Rocotos, a Varied World of Shape, Color, and Type
The major hot pepper of Cuzco, the rocoto, flames with heat and yet has a flavor that entices. It comes…
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Commentary
Loss of Flavor and Food in Peru
“People here do not like hot food.” An entrepreneur from India living in Cuzco told me this in reference to…
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Our Salads Bring Balance to a Meal
One of our customs in the city of Cuzco is to eat any main dish with a hot sauce, an…
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Commentary
Chiles are now Grown in Peru and Exported to Mexico
If there is anything more Mexican than guajillo chiles, reddish, spicy, and yet a bit sweet, or the green fire…
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