Palta’s Love – Necklace

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This is the first piece of my new “Chris, Kitty & Nino” Collection. Just like living food, it was a life-giving labor of love…It’s great to be back!

One of my favorite weekly rituals is going every Monday morning to the “Reading Terminal Market” in Philadelphia to shop for our fresh local veggies and fruits for the week. When this necklace was commissioned to create something inspired by the beauty and nurturing gifts of living food, REAL food; our local Farmers Market, as well as the “Palta” became my muses for the design of this lovely necklace.

Palta is how avocados are known by its Quechuan name, the native Incas language currently still spoken mainly in Bolivia.  As a Bolivian and Palta lover myself, this is my humble homage to the “apple of the Andes” -as we also call them- and the garnishing gifts they provide to our souls and bodies.

– Veruschka