Potatoes and Two Days of Frost, the “Papa Helada”
Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 8:10 am
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Papa Helada with Cheese and Salad, San Pedro Market
By David Knowlton and Hebert Edgardo Huamani Jara
It freezes most nights now above the city of Cuzco. The arrival of the frost marks a major change in the year and, as a result, suddenly a new food appears in Cuzco and people take pleasure in it. Not surprisingly, it is a form of the potato and today is the Day of the Potato in Peru. Read the rest of this entry
