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Dilara
Peruvian coffee | Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
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We had Peruvian-style coffee after lunch today.
You start by making a strong cold-brew coffee extract. It needs to steep for 24 hours. You can then strain it & keep it in the fridge. When you want coffee, you pour some of the extract in a cup, dilute it to taste with hot (or cold) water. It is typically served with condensed milk. Very nice, very smooth. Will make again.

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kspenmoll Sounds like great coffee! 22h
TheBookHippie I‘m planning to do this too!! 22h
Dilara @kspenmoll It is! 😁 22h
Dilara @TheBookHippie That's great! I look forward to your post. Making the extract was a bit of a faff, but I really liked the finished product. I hope you do too. 22h
Texreader Nice!! 22h
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Deep Rivers | Jose Maria Arguedas
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José María Arguedas was a Peruvian teacher, writer, musicologist and ethnologist. He wrote in Quechua and in Spanish. Deep Rivers is a semi-autobiographical novel mostly set in & around Abancay, & told through the eyes of Ernesto, a young boarder whose dad is an itinerant lawyer (didn't know that was a thing!) It shows how violently hierarchical #Peru was at the start of the 20th c. A classic for good reason.
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Dilara Pic of Central plaza in Abancay, Apurímac, Peru by AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2397373 1d
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I finally got to my #FoodAndLit #Bangladesh book (Although it was mostly set in India so I want to go back and see what the rest of you read.)

This novel revolved around several lives in the Sundarbans - river islands on the border of India and Bangladesh. There‘s a scientist studying freshwater dolphins, the prodigal nephew returning for the first time since he was sent as a punishment as a child, the young family struggling with expectations⬇️

Bookwormjillk And the hospital administrator quietly living her life as the unsung hero among those doing big things. The description of the area made me want to get in a boat and sail there right away. This is a slow start but I‘m really glad I stuck with it. 2d
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I absolutely never would have read this if not for #camplitsy25 and just loved it! @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain

TheBookHippie I loved her The Nsibidi Scripts series! 3d
JenReadsAlot @TheBookHippie This was my first by her so will check that out! 3d
TheBookHippie @JenReadsAlot I found her because of #FOODANDLIT NIGERIA 3d
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JenReadsAlot @TheBookHippie That makes sense! Looking forward to reading more! 3d
CBee @TheBookHippie I second this! I haven‘t read the 3rd but loved the first two! She‘s amazing. 2d
BarbaraBB I too discovered this author thanks to #CampLitsy! 2d
squirrelbrain Glad you loved it! 🥰 2d
KLyn1 Same - a little less than halfway through... But loving it!! 2d
Suet624 I was going to post the same thing. Never would have read this if not for #CampLitsy25 and I'm so glad I'm reading it. 2d
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As far as histories about fish go, this is top notch. But it‘s, well, a history about fish. This book covers the economic history of the market for cod, starting with the Basque of Spain through cod‘s depletion in our lifetime. We learn a lot about the cod itself and countless ancient and newer recipes for all things cod. Having toured the ancient Hanseatic Museum in Norway, I expected a lot more detail about the economics of cod. I just felt ⬇️

Texreader like there was more to be covered. I read this for #Greenland #foodandlit but it was barely mentioned at the beginning. @Catsandbooks 3d
kspenmoll I admire you reading a book about fish! 🐟 even though I am so connected to water, salt or not, fish are squirmy & slimy & at times scary to me. Maybe it was all the hidden eels that found my young self- YUK- when I swam thru tons of eel grass at the CT shore! 🐍 3d
Sace I have his history of salt sitting in my shelf and I recently ordered a copy of The Basque History of the World. 3d
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The Neighborhood: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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I finished the book, but I didn't like it much. I think I see what the author tried to do: denounce corruption, esp. the collusion between rich/business people, politicians, police & gutter press by writing a novel that uses some of the same tricks that the gutter press uses, but it was very “blokey“ IYYWIM & I didn't enjoy the dated, male-gazey aspect of it, nor the undeveloped characters.
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Dilara pic of the Palacio ejecutivo del Peru by fortes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (edited) 3d
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King of Ashes | S. A. Cosby
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I doubt I‘ve ever tried to read six books at the same time. But here I am giving it a try! It‘s too hard to pass up a good reading challenge! And I haven‘t even started my books I‘ve picked out for #Authoramonth this month.

#campLitsy #Greenland #Peru #foodandlit #whatthedickens #klbr #doorstopkirstin

Cuilin I also sign up for too many buddy reads 🤦‍♀️ Enjoy though, they look good. 4d
Catsandbooks Good luck! 🫡👍🏼❤️ 4d
Eggs Wow lots of great challenges👏🏻👏🏻 4d
BarbaraJean Hahaha—I have the same problem. I‘m in the middle of 8 right now 🙈 Kristin and Little Dorrit among them! 4d
KadaGul @Texreader @Cuilin @Catsandbooks @BarbaraJean You folks got this💪 👊🫶. 3d
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Maggie4483
The Girl without Skin | Mads Peder Nordbo
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The blog I got this recipe from says it‘s a Greenlandic recipe, but didn‘t provide a whole lot of further detail. I overcooked the fish (maybe because it was also was without its skin…sorry), but the sauce and vegetables were so good. I‘ll definitely be making it again.

I‘m nowhere near finishing the book, but I hope to get through it quickly before moving on to Peru. #FoodAndLit

Texreader Looking good even if overcooked! 😋 5d
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The Neighborhood: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Tagged book mentions Peruvian singer-songwriter Felipe Pinglo Alva so I had to look him up and now I'm on Deezer, listening to a scratchy 78 rpm disc recording 😂 instead of reading the book (probably because I am finding it underwhelming so far).
ETA: the translators translated real song titles! Who does that? It takes some retroengineering and knowledge of Spanish to find them online.

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Sendero | Max R Tomlinson
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