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“The potato was a sacred food for the Incas,” says Manuel Choqque Bravo, in a lilting accent characteristic of Peru’s Andean highlands. “For me and my family, it’s been important to rescue this ancestral knowledge and these varieties of potatoes.”
Hailing from Huatata, a town near Cusco, Manuel