The Afro-Peruvian breakfast that taught three generations about fatherhood.
I was born in Peru, but I’ve been an immigrant most of my life
Peru’s comida criolla is a fusion of Inca, Spanish, African, Chinese, and Japanese culinary cultures that has evolved over a period of 500 years; tacu tacu is one of those dishes with strong Afro-Peruvian roots. Colonists brought African slaves to Peru’s Pacific coast to labor on sugar plantations, cultivate rice, pick cotton, and mine guano.
My father recalls the kitchen in their single-story quinta well, with its large opening in the ceiling for ventilation . My grandmother would cook stews in a large cast-iron pot that she’d place on a metal grill over a wood-coal fire. Without a refrigerator, any leftovers remained in the pots and pans overnight. If these happened to include long-grain white rice and canary bean stew, it got turned into tacu tacu for breakfast.
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