f Mountain Food or the Common Ground of Milk and Coca: On the Relationship between Alpine and Andean Landscapes and Food in Literature

This article focuses on the comparison of two mountain landscapes and their relationship to a special food in European and Peruvian Indigenista literature and culture. Whilst dairy products such as milk, cheese and chocolate are often linked with the Alps, the coca leaf is associated with the Andes. In both cases, the relationship of food and landscape appears as a symbolic agglomeration which depends on specific historical and cultural factors. The process of landscape-making, including its food, is seen as an aesthetic and cultural construct. Thus, literature not only reflects but also influences the creation of “mountain food”.