Inca food: Did you mean...?

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An Inca rest station on the Inca Trail, Peru. Such stations were built at regular intervals along most major Inca highways.

A reconstruction of a Roman thermopolio or hot food and drink shop. (Archaeological Museum, Aosta)

The traditional food of Bhutan.

A still-life painting by Clara Peeters showing typical dishes of 16-17th century CE northern Europe. In the centre is a pie with a container behind it for salt and a typical low, round bread loaf in the foreground. The olives and orange would...

A photograph showing the foodstuffs two adults were entitled to during rationing in wartime Britain. There is milk, sugar, bacon, cheese, butter and chocolate. Other items were also rationed whilst bread, fruit, and vegetables were not. (Imperial...

An Inca circular terracing used to increase agricultural yield. Moray, Peru, 15-16th century CE.

A map of the Inca road system which included some 40,000 km of routes.

A colonial-era illustration depicting Inca farmers using traditional tools such as the foot plough. By the native chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, c. 1613 CE.

Inca qollqa (storehouses) used for storing grain and other foodstuffs. 15-16th century CE, Ollantaytambo.