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Archive | March, 2010
a brief culinary guide to Argentina
March 25, 2010
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Alfajores. That would be Moon Pie, only smaller. These chocolate covered double-decker cookies with assorted fillings are everywhere. Buy them in bulk if you want. In places where Argentines go on vacation every other shop is an alfajores shop.
Read moreof Spanish and sauerkraut
March 22, 2010
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Sunday we took a second road trip, this time to Los Cumbrecita, another German Alpine village on the edge of the Sierras in central Argentina. When you get to the village, it is deep in a ravine, down a bumpy cobblestone street. You have to park and walk across a bridge into the small town— [...]
Read moretrouble in paradise (AA5a)
March 22, 2010
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There was a road rally here in Santa Rosa on Saturday and it was crazy everywhere (see video here, from the street where we’re staying). It seemed like every field nearby had been turned into a parking lot and people were walking by the house all morning toward the event.
Read more a perfect day (AA4d)
March 21, 2010
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Sometimes every thing turns out just right.
Read morethe fountain of youth
March 20, 2010
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Mate is the national drink of Argentina. (it’s pronounced in two syllables, with a short e.) They put it in a gourd with hot water and pass it around, sipping it out of the same filtered straw, called a bombilla. When it’s gone they pour some more hot water out of a thermos into the [...]
Read morethey eat parrots, don’t they? (AA4c)
March 18, 2010
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I’ve referred to the parrots here, as a trope for the slightly exotic character of our surroundings. But I wouldn’t want to leave the wrong impression.
Read morea river runs through it (AA4b)
March 17, 2010
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Katie and I are finding a new pace for our life, now that we are getting past the travel and tourist aspects of our trip. We are settling into our own routines, here on the edge of the mountains. I’m on sabbatical, which implies rest but in modern academia involves a set of expectations about [...]
Read morein search of celery (AA4a)
March 17, 2010
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We found some fresh celery in the store yesterday and practically started dancing. Then, we found some broccoli that wasn’t limp and yellow. Cue the orchestra.
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are there guitars in Argentina?
I was talking with Pablo last night, at our final asado on this trip. Fifteen people got together to eat about 16 pounds of meat over three hours, as the various cuts and kinds roasted slowly on the grill. Pablo is a missionary kid, a child of two cultures whose parents have the opportunity to [...]
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