Crossword-Solution: CHURRASCO 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Indeed, but for the language, one might fancy oneself back on the lower Bowery as the waiter bawls to the kitchen: “Un churrasco!” “Un bisté fogoso!” “Hasta cuando esos choclos?” The high cost of living, like the railroad decreed by congress in 1864, had not yet climbed over the range into Cajamarca.

The poncho-clad proprietor proceeded with fitting gravity to serve me a thoroughly Peruvian meal, of which the chief ingredient was a _churrasco_, or steak, not of beef, as I at first fancied, but of llama, a favorite Huancavelican dish which would not exactly win the unstinted praise of an epicure.