These wild mushrooms grow after thunderstorms. It is curious that where the lightning bolts strike, the kallampas grow in lines like lightening tracks, just there. Women and children gather them as a delicacy from the skies. They cook them in different ways. One of the most traditional forms is mushroom Kapchi, the Kapchi de Setas, as the kallampitas are also known. They are not only delicious, but because of their origin they have in their being a bit of lightning energy and the intensity of the storm. The indescribable flavor transports us to the highest plains of the Andes. With veneration we nourish ourselves with the kallampas only found this time of year, the rainy season.
