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Recipes
A Different and Subtle Cuzco Hot Sauce
On Mothers Day, while the men in the garden struggled to get the heat right to grill large, thin pork…
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Ingredients
Two Unusual Andean Tubers Delight in May: Oca and Añu
The Andes are the Eden of tubers. While potatoes are the best known, others are just now beginning to come…
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Customs
The Potato in Cuzco
The potato is the most important crop for Peruvian cuisine since it cannot be missing from almost any meal. It…
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Ingredients
The Mystery of Potatoes
Hidden beneath the earth, potatoes are growing in Cuzco. Soon it will be harvest time and they will be lifted…
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Customs
Growing Food and Culture in Cuzco
In Cuzco food still goes right from field to pot, although increasingly people rely on middlemen and markets in the…
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Traditional Food
A Very Ancient and Very Contemporary Soup, Chuño Cola
Though summer in Cuzco, it may as well be winter, since people tend to stay indoors during the cold afternoons…
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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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A World of Color and Flavor in your Hand, Cuzco’s Papas Rellenas
A small, colorful world full of flavor appears among white, billowy clouds when you open a papa rellena, a Peruvian…
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Recipes
Seasonal Vegetarian Delight, Yuyo Jaucha
A seasonal dish called Jaucha (how-chaw) is only found from October through the beginning of March in Cuzco. It is…
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Food & Drinks
A Pageant, a Fair, and Food
The sun bathes Cuzco in its light these days. It moves through the city like a guardian, illuminating first this…
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