Andean Peruvian Foodways

La sierra

Regional

The Andes: terraced valleys, high plains and the puna. POTATO diversity on a scale found nowhere else — several thousand native varieties are maintained by farming communities, with the Parque de la Papa above Pisac as the best-known conservation effort; maize in dozens of landraces including the giant white maize of the Urubamba; quinoa, kiwicha and cañihua; oca, olluco and mashua; CUY and camelids; and the freeze-drying that turns potato into chuño and moraya. CUSCO, Puno, Ayacucho, Huancayo, Huaraz and Cajamarca.