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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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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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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⬇️

I absolutely never would have read this if not for #camplitsy25 and just loved it! @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain

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 ⬇️

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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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.

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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

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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Peruvian food

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