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Food & Drinks
The Yunza Tree Brings Joy to Carnival in Cuzco’s Neighborhoods
The custom of the yunza also called the cortamonte, tree-cutter, involves a tree filled with gifts. It has a lot…
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Ingredients
Sweet Potatoes Occupy Peruvian Cuisine
Sweet potatoes, called camote in Peru, are well known. They are widely consumed in our country because of their benefits…
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Carnival Ends Today with the Cacharpaya
For Carnival in Cuzco there are two principal days in which we celebrate massively. The first day, which is called…
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Traditional Food
Our Carnival Food, Puchero (Thimpu), Can Never Be Missing
When the months of February and March come and the fiestas of Carnival arrive our satisfying traditions–music, dance, costumes, the…
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Customs
Happy Comadres Day: Fun, Farce, and Honor
Happy day to all the comadres. We will drink a pair of beers for our days. Of course we are…
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Ingredients
February Brings Love, Carnival, and Yuca
The rainy season is nearing its mid point and quickly will come to an end. As it goes on, in…
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Recipes
A Recipe for Cuzco’s Traditional Carnival Puchero (Thimpu)
During Cuzco’s Carnival it often rains and people have fun spraying foam and tossing buckets of water at each other.…
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Food & Drinks
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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Traditional Food
When Food Fell to Earth: Carnival’s Stew, Thimpu
Abundance and moisture define carnival in the Peruvian highlands. At this time when lightning zigzags with abandon across the jagged…
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Customs
Food, Dolls, and Rain: Carnival in Cuzco
Carnival is a time of effervescence and renewal. In Cusco it rains, often heavily, while people play with water, celebrate…
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