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Celebration
Christmas arrived in Cusco
The city of Cusco lives a festive atmosphere. The beautiful Inca citadel dresses in color with Christmas images, colored lights,…
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Food & Drinks
Cusco’s Chuncho Cacao Recognized as One of the World’s Best
Cusco grows some of the world’s finest cacao. That has been known locally but became global knowledge when chocolate made…
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Restaurants
Poetry in Chocolate, Ruro Chocolatière
Blooming like a burst of fragrant flowers off a building’s stem, the scent of chocolate pulls; floral, rich and with…
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Drinks
Hot Chocolate Makes This Season Warm and Loving
During the rainy season in Cusco drinking a cup of hot chocolate brings warmth to the palate, the body, and…
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Ingredients
Time for Cuzco’s Cacao to Impress
Peru’s cacao and its chocolate are gaining more and more recognition, especially at a time when the industry faces severe…
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Cusco, a Leader in Cacao within Peru
The upland jungles of Cusco traditionally produce a third of Peru’s cacao. While most of it is for Peru’s internal…
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Food & Drinks
Christmas and Hot Chocolate with Panettones and Biscochos
Christmas is anxiously awaited by children with excitement. They love it. They can’t wait to eat panettone with a hot…
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Customs
One Love, Two Ways
A chasm splits Peru and one of its signs is love. On this Valentine’s Day one might think love is…
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Customs
Chicken, Christmas Eve, and the Change of Time
Three, two, one, the people of Cuzco count down on Christmas Eve, as if waiting for a space ship to…
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Ingredients
Cuzco’s Aromatic Cacao
Plump, colorful fruit hang from stems. Large as melons, they seem somehow incongruous clinging to the trees, as if…
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