uchukuta
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Food & Drinks
Divine Hot Sauce
Some people see a hot sauce on the table and think of it as if it were akin to a…
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Food & Drinks
The Joy of Potatoes and Uchukuta
Food is so many things to people, but one of the most important is taste which includes scent. I recently…
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Traditional Food
How to Make a Good Uchukuta Hot Sauce
A spicy sauce made of rocoto hot peppers and herbs the uchukuta* has a flavor that has gained it great…
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Food & Drinks
Peanuts Make Food Richer in Cusco
Toasted Peanuts Unbelievable flavors await you in every dish of food. Laid out on a plate it may look simple,…
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Commentary
Tinku, an Andean Ideology of Food
Food fills the plate and the stomach, but it is somehow more. It is put together according to the ideals…
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Customs
What Makes a Hot Sauce Spicy?
Scientists tell us it is the quantity of capsaicin peppers have that makes them hot and spicy to one degree…
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Events
Fathers’ Day Celebrated in Cusco
Fathers’Day is a day dedicated to fathers to honor the influence of father’s in the lives of their children. The…
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Recipes
Outstanding Peanut and Cheese Uchukuta (Hot Sauce)
For the mother’s day feast of huatia, earth-roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes accompanied by tallarines al horno (oven-baked fettuccine) and…
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Commentary
Where is the Sauce?
Peru has a wealth of hot peppers and an amazing range of salsas made from them. Yet in tourist restaurant…
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The Best Flavor in Cuzco’s Cooking Still Comes from the Batán, the Grinding Stones.
If you make a hot sauce on what we in Cuzco call a batán, a grinding stone, you obtain the…
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