The Inca nation were still settling down to new surroundings when the Spanish arrived during the 1530’s and, in the name of God, massacred an entire nation so technologically, scientifically, medically and agriculturally advanced that it astounds me the Spaniards got off so lightly and have never been reprimanded. Because the ancient Inca lacked a written language, the only clues they left us was through art, architecture and oral tradition – not too much in the form of culinary history. The Inca did have the khipu, however – patterned collections of strings