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  • P’isara of Quinoa

    When: Saturday, July 5, 2025, 3-3:45 P.M. ET
    Where: Foodways
    Category: Foodways
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    This Bolivian dish dates to pre-Columbian times, most likely created by the Wankarani people, who lived in the territories known today as Oruro and Potosi. Rapper Eber Miranda gains culinary and agricultural knowledge from his mother, Alicia Quisbert Quispe, who is a farmer in Bolivia’s Andean plateau and is roughly 4,000 feet above sea level. His mother grows various potatoes, as well as quinoa, cañahua, wheat, and broad beans (fava beans).


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