Buenos Aires – As promised yesterday, I’m playing with my second tuber today. The oca is one of the “lost crops of the Incas” as some authorities have tagged it, along with the olluco and olluquito that I talked about already. Both are important staple foods of Andean cuisines, and are grown along with a… Read More Su Tuber es Mi Tuber
Buenos Aires – I miss good sushi, bagels, and marjoram. I don’t know why there’s no marjoram in Buenos Aires, it’s available in Uruguay across the river. It’s grown in Mendoza on the opposite side of the country. It’s my favorite herb. This shall be my new quest. I don’t miss this year’s New York… Read More Random +&-
Buenos Aires – As suspected, given that Henry is from Peru, he knew immediately what the two different potatoes I picked up yesterday were. One turned out to not even be a potato! The first is known throughout most of the Andean area as the olluquito (in some areas, Bolivia for example, it is known… Read More Playing with My Potatoes
Buenos Aires – Quite literally, there is a divide between neighborhoods on opposite sides of the tracks. I set out originally planning to check out two places for empanadas from the Tucumán area in the northwest. I’ve been following the guidance in selecting places of both recommendations of friends and the writings of Dereck Foster,… Read More Different Sides of the Tracks
Buenos Aires – A bit further south than the other two empanada regions I’ve looked at is the province of San Juan. Along the western border with Chile, just north of the midpoint, and just north of the well known wine region of Mendoza. The cuisine of San Juan is considered less rustic than that… Read More Empanadas 3 – San Juan
Buenos Aires – After Spanish class this morning I headed off to commune with the formerly living. Cementerio de la Recoleta is one of the most impressive cemeteries in the world. While Recoleta may be a place where a whole lot of money can buy an address, that money has little impact when it comes… Read More Bring Out Your Dead
Buenos Aires – It seems that I’m living sort of on the line between the neighborhoods of Recoleta and Barrio Norte, and though I thought I was living in the former, more folks are telling me I’m living in the latter. I headed more towards the north this morning to explore this area. As I… Read More Empanadas Parte Dos
Buenos Aires – If you were out to sell someone on moving somewhere, you’d probably emphasize all the positive aspects of life there. Things to do, things to see, the simplicity, the tranquility, the pace, the whatever it is that makes your country, city, or neighborhood an attractive place to you. Or at least that’s… Read More The Sport of Thievery