[Originally published December 31, 2012] It was a sad day in Cusco when the Archdiocese refused to renew the lease of the iconic Cafe Ayllu, forcing it to relinquish its spot after decades under the Portal de Carnes, next to the Cathedral on the Inca capital’s main plaza.
Over the last eight years, our friends Celeste Marion, a Seattle, Washington native, and Mercedes Delgado Chavez, from Cusco, have tackled a seemingly insurmountable problem: the cultural stigma in Peru against special needs children.
Reuters reports that two Peruvian coffee producers — Cecovasa and Chanchamayo Highland Coffee Co. — are now making one of the most expensive coffees in the world by retrieving arabica beans from the dung of a long-nosed jungle mammal called the coati, a tropical cousin of the raccoon.
Cultural relativism takes on goofy dimensions in an age of celebrity Tweet-casted vacations.
Have you ever heard of the famous depiction of Christ’s Last Supper in the Cathedral of Cusco, where the main dish is a roasted guinea pig?