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Traditional Food
A Perfect Combination, Corn and Cheese (Choclo con Queso)
Cheese and Corn Ready to Be Eaten (Walter Coraza Morveli) Because of the incomparable combination of flavors that is choclo…
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Ingredients
Corn, in Its Wondrous Variety, Gives Life to Cuzco
Corn is one of the food we eat the most in the city of Cuzco as well as in our…
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Shouts up Doorways, White Hats on Streets, and Cuzco’s Seasonal Food
The voice ripped up the stairway from the plaza, as if tearing a cloth of difference. I was sitting in…
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Food & Drinks
A New Standard of Novo-Andean Cuisine, Pastel de Choclo (Sweet Corn Cake)
Its soft and gentler kernels arrive from the Sacred Valley of the Incas to be the main actor in this…
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Ingredients
Corn on the Cob and Cheese Returns to Cuzco
Corn is one of the traditional Andean foods that are most produced such as potatoes and others. During the months…
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The Corn of Cuzco
Corn is the sun that illuminates Cuzco’s native food. This time of year, while the celestial orb often hides behind…
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Desserts
Sweet Corn Cake, A Way to Cuzco’s Heart
Sweet corn cake (pastel de choclo), one of Cuzco’s distinctive traditions, keeps crossing borders. It is easy to make and,…
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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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