Shucking corn in his backyard was only one of the many activities this quiet
man happily shared with his wife in the small town of Uchucmarca in Peru’s
Amazonas Province. While on a 1976 Natural History magazine assignment in the
couple’s remote region, which lacked accommodations of any type, I had to base
myself in their modest house. But the bread they baked and sold to their
neighbors, and the wife’s alfalfa soup, were among the best I tasted anywhere.
