Enjoy the baby pigeon Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is one of the most famous and delicious dishes you can find in the valleys of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It's, by far, one of my favorite meals.

The birds are cooked over a pile of coal and served with noodles, salad, boiled potatoes and "chuño" (a typical side of Bolivian dishes; it's sun-dried potato mixed with egg - you can see it in the bottom of the plate close to the bird's head).

Everything is good to eat, only the beak and feet are discarded (and of course, the feathers before cooking it). The rest (head, body, viscera) is eatable.

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arnaudgv (21) 2009-02-24 9:06

Salut Telma,

même si la tête me tente peu, l'authenticité de ce plat vaut bien un + 2 :))
et puis ça me rappelle les surprises culinaires que l'on peut faire durant les voyages ...

KateinDenmark (1117) 2009-04-03 0:51

Hello,

Well you could have positioned the bird a bit better so its beak wasn't hitting the bottom of the frame, but other than that this is a good shot. It is easy to see that that creature was once a pigeon. I really appreciated your description of the food as it all seems very exotic. Well done!

Sincerely,
Kate