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Cuy chactado: Guinea pig, breaded with corn flour and fried and served with golden potatoes and salad. [39] [40] [41] Cuy con papas: Seasoned, cooked, and fried Guinea pig served with a potato stew, toasted peanuts, chopped onions and hot peppers. [42] Cuy frito: Guinea pig breaded with corn meal and fried.
Cuy: Guinea pig, which is often served whole, or the meat can be used as filling for foods such as tacos and ravioli. [13] Cuy chactado: A dish more popular in the highlands is this meal of fried guinea pig. Often the indigenous women of the Peruvian Andes will raise the guinea pigs in their huts.
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On the July 21st premiere of his National Geographic Show, "Uncharted," he travels to Peru where he tries an array of local delicacies, including roast guinea pig.
The montane guinea pig is a medium-sized species, growing to a total length of 247 mm (9.7 in). Their colour varies in different parts of the range; in Peru, the dorsal fur is dark reddish-brown mixed with black, and the underparts are dark buffy-grey; in Chile, the dorsal surface is pale agouti brown with paler underparts; in Bolivia, the upper parts are agouti olive and the underparts creamy ...
Churin is a town in Oyon Province, Peru. In protoquechua, the word churin means "your child". [1] The city holds two annual festivals. The Annual Maca Festival celebrates maca, an aphrodisiac food. [2] The town also has an annual festival revolving around the food and cultural icon of the cuy, or guinea pig. The festivities involve dressing the ...
Caviidae, the cavy family, is composed of rodents native to South America and includes the domestic guinea pig, wild cavies, and the largest living rodent, the capybara.They are found across South America in open areas from moist savanna to thorn forests or scrub desert.
A Utah man has been jailed for a year for filming himself torturing and crushing guinea pigs and posting the videos on YouTube.. Samuel Webster, 20, of Farmington, Utah, pleaded guilty to animal ...