Talk:Andean cuisine

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A fact from Andean cuisine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 7 June 2007.

This sentence is confusing: "The most important staples were various tubers, including potatoes, amaranth and quinoa." as neither amaranth and quinoa are tubers. I assume "including potatoes" is parenthetical? krc 02:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Input

I wanted to come to this article long time ago. Well my first input comes in the form of listing most of the Crops, and some content. I will return, to see and check the content. JohnManuel (talk · contribs)-23:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Bulleted lists of crops are pretty useful for editorial purposes, as a starting point, but they're not really desirable in article space. I recommend converting them to prose as soon as possible.

Peter ^Isotalo 05:27, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree, lets do it, JohnManuel (talk · contribs) -14:26, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't really know what to do with it. What's the source?

Peter ^Isotalo 07:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move proposal

I propose to move this page to Andean cuisine since it more acurately by the same reason that Mediterranean cuisine is not callled Cuisine of the Roman empire. The cuisine described in this page existed before the Inca Empire and after it and beyond its borders so why should it be be called Inca cuisine? Dentren | ^Talk 13:05, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree, Andean cuisine is a more accurate term. One comment though, would this title, the article would have to include how this cuisine evolved after the Spanish conquest. --Victor12 (talk) 13:54, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

The "Inca" is there largely there to delimit the article historically. As you may notice, post-Columbian ingredients are not mentioned. If you want to write about Andean cuisine from the stone age to today, you should really create a separate article.

Peter ^Isotalo 10:54, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

However, as Dentren mentioned above, there's no difference between Inca cuisine and the cuisine of previous Andean civilizations. Thus, Andean cuisine is the correct label for this topic. As for excluding post-Columbian ingredients and influences we could rename this Prehispanic Andean cuisine or just provide links to those cooking traditions that emerged after conquest: Bolivian cuisine, Peruvian cuisine, etc. --Victor12 (talk) 12:31, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

The non-Incan relevance of the actual article content is fairly limited. There's overlapping info, yes, but none that couldn't be defined as prehistory. I'm all for wider definitions through renaming, but I believe it should also be done through actual expansion of contents. If anything, we need a wider range of sources than just Coe and Popenoe.

As for national cuisines, I think it's important to stress that they should be delimited by the establishment of the actual modern nation-states, not just the European conquest.

Peter ^Isotalo 14:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, not a single piece of information in the article is exclusive to the Incas. All of it applies to pre-Incan Andean civilizations. The Incas did not add any specific dish, ingredient or any other cuisine related stuff to this mix. That's why the article should be renamed as Andean cuisine as all of this crops, animals and food preparation methods were developed prior to the establishment of the Inca Empire. As for the second part of your post I agree, one can only talk about national cuisines properly from the 1820s on in the Andean Region. However, I don't think you want to include the colonial cuisine here, so the Spanish Conquest seems like an appropriate ending date for this article. --Victor12 (talk) 03:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't see any problems with the contents of Andean cuisine, i should just simply have subtopics of how the cuisine was before the arrive of the spanish and its evolution since Spanish conquest and the independence of its colonies. As with all cuisines, they evolve so Andean cuisine before 1500 is just as Andean as modern Andean cuisine. However as said before they article should describe the evolution of the cuisine. Dentren | ^Talk 12:40, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

So, do we all agree on moving Inca cuisine to Andean cuisine? --Victor12 (talk) 15:46, 19 April 2008 (UTC)