Buenos Aires – Catamarca is a province in the northwest of Argentina, along the border with Chile, essentially in the Andes mountains. None of this is particularly relevant. It comes up because I am exploring the world of the empanada. If you’re not familiar with these, they are essentially savory turnovers, either fried or baked, [...]
Buenos Aires – Spent the day yesterday with some new friends, a couple of young Argentine guys. It brought home a couple of interesting cultural (and probably age-related) differences. One arrived a few hours early, while we were having breakfast, he’d left the other sleeping. So we hung out and waited for the other to [...]
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"...of those people claiming to have an allergy or intolerance, only 2 per cent actually did. That means millions of people wrongly think they have a food allergy. Their condition is not an allergy itself, but the belief that they have an allergy. Of course, some people use food intolerance as a socially acceptable way to say they just don’t like something. It’s posh-sounding pickiness." - Max Pemberton, Food Intolerance: The New Epidemic?
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