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Ingredients
Seven Flours for your Health
The seven flours are a combination of various flours. However, in reality it is not pre-established as to what they…
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Customs
Yellow Welcomes the New Year
Even though Christmas is people continue to prepare for festivities. Cuzco’s streets dress up in bright yellow as a symbol…
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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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Ingredients
Cuzco’s Guinea Pigs Always Need Greenery to Become Good to Eat
Guinea Pigs squeak and dart in old style Cuzco kitchens while in more contemporary homes they have a pen nearby.…
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Holy, Nutritious, and Exotic Wheat
One can only imagine how strange Peru must have seemed to the Spaniards who arrived with the invading force and…
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Literature
Potato Flower
“La Flor de Papa” is a cheeky song considered folklore which is very widely known in Cuzco. Though ostensibly simple…
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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
Wheat Soup (Chaque) to Beat the Cold
When chill settles on Cuzco, its people turn to something warm, such as a good soup. Trigo chaque (in Quechua…
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Traditional Food
Cuzco’s Traditional, Hand-Made Bread
While much of the world is caught in the pre-prepared uniformity of industrial breads (even those of the artisanal bread…
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