Cusco
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Cuzco’s Traditional, Hand-Made Bread
While much of the world is caught in the pre-prepared uniformity of industrial breads (even those of the artisanal bread…
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Chicken Soup at Midnight
Chicken soup at midnight. That, or beef soup, is what people ate last night, one of the important feast days…
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Customs
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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Ingredients
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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Food & Drinks
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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Traditional Food
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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Food & Drinks
Rains Still Fall: Good Food Today in Cuzco
The rains still fall in Cuzco, heavily; it is the time of abundance. Fresh produce is everywhere. Though in the…
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