fava beans
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Ingredients
Farm to Table Time with Fava Beans in Cusco
Fresh and Green Beans from the Farms of Cusco The season of green fava beans has arrived throughout the region…
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Food & Drinks
Cuzco’s Iconic Kapchi of Fresh, Wild Mushrooms
Kapchi of habas, broad beans, is a typical dish in Cuzco. It symbolizes the city, yet is only rarely found…
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Ingredients
Broad Beans, though European, Have Claimed Cuzco’s Gastronomy
When fava beans are mentioned, so many things come to mind since we have grown up with this bean. It…
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Customs
The “Seven Flours,” a Popular Breakfast and Medicine.
The “seven flours” may sound like something from Snow White. But it is a Cuzco label for a ground meal…
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Food & Drinks
Simplicity, Corn and Beans (Mote and Puspo)
One kind of food is that which is enshrined in the elaborate, while another seems basic and simple. Cuisines have…
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Fight the Cold and Build Community, Ponche de Habas
Both people and their communities pass through moments of transition. In these moments that which is of greatest importance to…
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Traditional Food
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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