Archive for the ‘Argentina Meals Food’ Category
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Try country's classic meat pastries -- or fancier fare at Saturday's gala.
'If I had to pick one food that is most typical of Argentina," wrote the celebrated chef Francis Mallmann, "it would be the crispy fried or baked turnover known as the empanada.
"People eat these at the start of big ...
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Address: 308-310 Liverpool St, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
Phone: 02 9332 3373
Style: Restaurant
Cuisine: Other European
Hours: Dinner, Tues-Sat
Price Guide: $160 for two, including wine,
Features: Licensed
Chefs: Alejandro Saraceni
Owners: Marcelo Berezowski and Santiago Correa
'It's all about the meat," says the woman who greets me. Let's see. I'm either in a porn movie or an Argentine ...
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
DURING eight weeks of eating in the hip Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the best meal I have is one that tourist dollars can't buy. It's a home-cooked feast with friends.
Adela Belinky, the talented mother of my friend Ines, shops for a week to gather the ingredients for our Sunday lunch ...
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Where can you find the greatest steak in the world?
A new book by food and travel journalist Mark Schatzker, Steak: One Man's Search for the World's Tastiest Piece of Beef, attempts to answers that question.
From the science of what makes for the perfect blade of grass to a look at ...
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
It’s all about respect, said Reina Morris, Buenos Aires Café owner and chef.
“I respect the food … the care I put into the food. I like things to be done correctly,” she said.
Every day, Morris roasts chicken for empanadas, makes fresh dough for four different types of gnocchi and hand ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
It may have begun life as the vulgar jig of the poor but tango's seductive steps and universal themes meant it was quickly embraced by the masses. Today there are tango museums, hotels, bars, cafés and murals, streets named after Argentina's most famous dancers.
Dilapidated warehouses and mansions have even been ...
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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Argentina444 is code for foodies in the know: 4 chefs, 4 cities, 4 seasons. Each season of 2010, one famous chef will accompany 16 people on a culinary expedition of Argentina. The 10-day food-themed tours are first-class in every regard and the prices all-inclusive.
The tours include the country's historical, architectural ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
IT was over a bowl of delicious, spicy-sweet peanut soup with pesto made from huacatay, or Andean black mint, that I realized the vegetarian diner was now perfectly welcome in Buenos Aires. As a vegetarian traveling in a country where beef takes center stage, I expected my meals to be ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Why (in Part) People Love Buenos Aires
I was there for two days, only — my first trip. While it was sort of obvious which parillas — essentially restaurants specializing in grilled meats — not to go to, it was more difficult to determine which ones were going to be worth ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
One of the privileges of a writer’s life—especially if he or she has no children, no pets and a spouse who loves to travel—is the ability to “up sticks,” as the British used to say, and move elsewhere. Longtime readers may recall reading about just such forays of mine—to Piedmont ...
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