Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

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The Bootlegger in Your Mouth

April 20th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Over the weekend, Microkhan had the enormous pleasure of re-watching Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, about a daft German’s attempt to build an opera house in early 20th-century Iquitos. Without giving too much away, the quest brings him in contact with an Amazonian tribe that prepares chicha the old-fashioned way: By balling up the maize in their […]

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