Reader L.P. wanted to make causa, which she described as a potato cake, for her Peruvian boyfriend, who wanted a taste of home. We received two hypotheses for the name of the dish: “It translates as ...

If you've never heard of or tried Peruvian causa, you're in for a treat. The dish is basically layers of spicy mashed potatoes, fresh crab and creamy avocado. (Sounds tasty, right?) So go ahead, watch ...

It wouldn’t be Hanukkah without papas a la huancaina and causa limena Peru may be one of the last places people associate with Hanukkah, but when we visited that country a few months ago, the potato ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Anatalia Gonzalez Gutierrez and Eloisa Piminchumo Domínguez prepared cuasa en lapa in El Fogón Kitchen. Photo by Erin Kurvers, Ralph Rinzler ...

This recipe originally appeared in the November 2018 issue. For our November 2018 “Feast Around the World” feature, we asked five of the state’s top chefs to create festive meals to serve this season.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --As the saying goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. You know what else is best served cold? The Peruvian dish, Causa. It's a potato-based dish, almost like a small cake, ...

Some people say causa comes from the Quechua word 'kausay" (sustenance of life). According to this, the dish would have pre-Hispanic roots, and in those days the dish was boiled potato eaten with ...

It wouldn’t be Hanukkah without papas a la huancaina and causa limena. Peru may be one of the last places people associate with Hanukkah, but when we visited that country a few months ago, the potato ...