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Locro

Locro

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A thick stew of white maize, beans, squash and meat — beef, pork, chorizo, tripe — with a fried ají-and-paprika fat spooned over. ⚠ ANDEAN AND PRE-COLUMBIAN IN ORIGIN, from Quechua ruqru, and shared with Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Paraguay; the pork and beef are colonial additions to an Indigenous maize-and-squash base. In Argentina it is eaten nationally on 25 May and 9 July, which turned a regional Andean dish into a patriotic one — a documented 20th-century development.

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Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Locro is Andean and pre-Columbian in origin, from Quechua ruqru, and is shared across Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Paraguay; its pork and beef are colonial additions to an Indigenous maize-and-squash base. Its status as an Argentine patriotic dish eaten on 25 May and 9 July is a documented twentieth-century development. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from Latin American Foodways documented

    Locro is Andean and pre-Columbian, from Quechua ruqru, and is shared across the Andean countries.

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