Comments on: 2017 Menu #35 https://www.saltshaker.net/20171018/2017-menu-35 Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Oscar https://www.saltshaker.net/20171018/2017-menu-35#comment-259472 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:41:56 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=23142#comment-259472 Dan,
Thanks a lot for the nice explanation.
I googled for it before asking … but as I read capichi for capchi, I found nothing except some restaurant named capichi instead of the italian capisci!

Oscar

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20171018/2017-menu-35#comment-259471 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 12:18:50 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=23142#comment-259471 Oscar – Capchi, or Japchi, or Q’apchi, or even Kapchi – it seems to have various spellings, not surprising for a non-Spanish word rendered into Spanish – as far as I can tell it probably has its origins in Quechua, and I’ve seen it translated, bizarrely, as both “harvest” and as “cheese”, although the latter seems to refer to a brand name that has historical origins in the Ayacucho region of Peru, rather than the product itself – so it may have been a brand name of a cheese “Harvest” which apparently was popular there. In the end though, translated or not, it basically seems to refer to a style of a dish of either fresh mushrooms or fresh broad beans (at least those are the only capchis I’ve seen recipes for) in a creamy sauce with huacatay and hierbabuena, potatoes, and eggs. If you search on either capchi de setas or capchi de habas you can find images and recipes of various versions of this dish that inspired ours.

]]> By: Oscar https://www.saltshaker.net/20171018/2017-menu-35#comment-259469 Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:15:58 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=23142#comment-259469 I’m lost with the word “Capichi”.
Where does it come from?

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