Tamales
- Ingredients
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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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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How the Inca Got His Wife
On the slopes that drop down to the city of Cuzco from the archeological park of Sacsayhuaman there are some…
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- Food & Drinks
An Inca Delicacy for Times of Rain
What is yellow and white, folded over, ancient and modern? An huminta, of course, one of the amazing delicacies of…
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Roast Pork, Bread Babies and Cuzco’s Day of the Living
Bread babies and bread horses people Cuzco today as its population gathers together, eat lechón (roast pork) and, following tradition,…
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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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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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Good to Eat and Good to, Um, Read
To eat — such as a tamale from the lady who every day sets up her pots under the Portal…
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