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Archeology
Two Stories, Two Suns, and Inca History
Inca history is like a pot smashed in time whose pieces are scattered. Scholars and others pick up the pieces,…
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Customs
A Celebration of Bread in Oropesa, Tanta Raymi
While a gigantic chuta bread, five meters wide, was at the center, the celebration of the twentieth Tanta Raymi in…
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Tumbo Fruit, A Refreshing Way to Slake Thirst
A refreshing burst to slake thirst in the dry season when the sun can beat relentlessly and make Cuzco’s streets…
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Ingredients
Cheese and Place in Ttio Market
Like a wall of butter-yellow bricks, congealed light, cheese glows on the stand in the market. Serrated like a battlement,…
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Commentary
Sun and City
Even though half a millennium has passed since the Incas worshipped the sun, it still rules Cuzco’s patios and streets.…
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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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Customs
The Indian Christ and Red Flowers on Holy Monday
Cuzco’s population will fill the city center today like no other time in the year. It will feel as if…
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Food & Drinks
Incas Come from the Ground like Potatoes
Dark and rich, like the night, the earth and its produce filled the background of Inca life. Even when the…
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