Tasting the desert with Chile's leading forager
The Atacama Desert may look like a forbidding landscape but for Patricia Pérez, an indigenous woman who grew up here, it's a treasure trove.
As a child Patricia Pérez would accompany her grandmother on incredible adventures in Chile's Atacama Desert. There they would search for unique herbs and plants by day and sleep in caves at night. Her grandmother would sell the herbs they found in markets and Patricia is now taking that tradition one step further. She started a company called La Atacameña and the herbs she forages are being used by five star hotels, a chocolate company and a restaurant that has been named one of the best in the world.
With music from Inti-Illimani.
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Picture: Patricia Pérez foraging
Credit: Isidora Pérez
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