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Ica Essentials
A considered first route through Ica: the foods that carry its everyday habits, celebrations, ingredients, and memory.
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3 foods to know.
Each selection includes the reason it belongs here—so this is a guide, not just a pile of names.
Ica, Peru
Carapulcra
Ica's carapulcra shows the region's dried-potato tradition in a thick, spiced stew.
Ica, Peru
Chapanas
These sweet yuca-and-chancaca parcels are a specific Ica dessert to seek at bakeries and markets.
Ica, Peru
Tejas
Ica tejas are filled sweets with a visible fondant shell and fruit or nut center.