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Glossary
of Peruvian Cuisine
Most
Common Terms, Dishes, and Ingredients.
Pachamanca:
The essential highland dish, which symbolises the strong
relationship between the Andean people and the Earth.
Pachamanca, a Quechua term for "earth pot"
or "when the earth transforms in pot", is
a millenary ritual, generous and festive, usually reserved
for religious and community festivities, such as the
harvest thanksgiving.
Pachamanca consists in
cooking several types of food -pork, chicken, cuy,
potatoes, corn, etc- inside a hole in the ground, previously
stuffed with incandescent stones and then covered with
aromatic herbs (such as huacatay).
By eating directly from the earth's core, Andean cultures
manifest their respect towards nature (or Pachamama),
the source of fertility and life.
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