The Spice of Life

April 30, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

I am an absolute nut about mulled wine, and perhaps with good reason. I remember France during the holidays, going to a bazaar full of baked goods and steaming vats of mulled wine, warming the hands and the belly against the chilly air. I spent Christmas in France in Stasburg, the place for Christmas, eating pain d’épices and downing bucketfuls of spicy wine on the snowy streets, but mulled wine is sold all over France during the winter season, and is also very plentiful around my family’s home, especially during holiday parties. The wine fills the air with the unmistakable aroma of cloves and cinnamon, a sent forever linked in my mind with smiles and the good cheer of the season.
Now, I am sorry to reminisce about all of this Christmas business but I really am getting to the point; and that is the flavor of this mulled wine brings […]

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¡La Campeona con 99%!

April 30, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

La Estanciera at Work
We’re back and safe after another whirlwind 600 Km trip to “see the cows.”
Pictured above is the love of my life, my darling wife Lilí looking concerned as she anticipates the results of this season’s tacto. The concern was well-founded. Last year at this time, we sat through a miserable assessment from the veterinario. Due to various causes such as drought and over-population, just to mention a few, very few of our cows were with calf. Disasterously few. To make it even more disheartening, this bad news came at the end of my wife’s first year of tremendously intensive efforts to bring modern, though organic, practices to a spread of grass that the dinosaurs trod and where cattle-raising technique had not changed much since the Querandí stopped killing European-types like ourselves.
Well, ladies and germs, the results are in!
I’m […]

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…and Speaking of Beef

April 28, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

…it’s off to the cows for me this weekend.
But one of the lines in the WaPo article got me to thinking…
Everybody talks about great steak and great wine at unheard of cheap prices yet there are restaurants now in which you can’t hear anyone speaking Castellano!
How ’bout compiling a list of our favorite steak joints in the neighborhoods far from the tourist track where you can be assured of being the only extranjero there?
Give it some thought. See you Monday (no olvidés, es feriado!)

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Keeping Argentina a Secret

April 27, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

There was a just posted to my previous post about the Washington Post article. I wanted to repost it here and then .

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Interesting article. Part of me doesn’t like seeing this stuff, but I suppose it’s good for BA at the end of the day, which is good. The average person attracted to BA by reading this story in the Washington Post has got to be preferable to the avergae person attracted there by reading the recent story in New York Magazine.

Buenos Aires Is No Longer A Secret

Over the last three years (but especially over the last 6 months) there have been so many stories about Buenos Aires and how it is really making a comeback — and becoming an expat paradise. The fact is, the secret is out. I suppose you could consider me and everyone else blogging about Buenos Aires as part of “the problem”, since […]

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Personalization: customers mould products considering their likes / Personalización: Los clientes moldean productos a gusto

April 25, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

Personalization: customers mould products considering their likes.

With the need of solving demands, a new trend appears in Buenos Aires. The personalization of products. The market pamper the customers so that they buy, adapting to their caprices. It is in fashion the “Make it yourself” as a new motto of marketing. The prices of this “personalization” can fly as high as consumer’s imagination. This added value has the help of the web, and really soon the product passes from the virtual space to the physic one. Many enterprises are working with this trend, which allows, for example, to prepare a car Suzuki FUN , Nike, trainers ring tones and personalized mobile phones Motorola, Mtv , teas and perfumes, comics Libros personalizados , diaries with photos Cecilia Lombardo Agendas, printings of packaging. This trend treats the client as someone unique, special. It doesn’t matter if the rules of the good taste […]

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I Love Soup

April 23, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

Yes, yes I do. So much so that I had to create a lovely little banner to show you all just how much.
While those readers in the world of the north are busy celebrating the newly emerging sun with shouts of glee and large piles of asparagus and steamy rhubarb crumble, we in the south are pulling on our coats and readying our soup pots.
I do not want to bother you all with more odes to soup, although my most preferred soup is a thick carrot and coriander brew, my preoccupation for orangy overdose paired with my lazy cooking style (i.e. not going to the veggie stand a whole 3 blocks away) led me to a pale shimmery soup, ready to make anyone´s mouth water.
Potato soup is probably the cheapest soup of all time to make. I normally make it with leeks, but as leeks are a little […]

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An Easter Photo Recap, Argentine Style

April 20, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

Easter in Argentina is about chocolate. They may not dye eggs, or go nuts (like someone I know who knits Easter eggs lord help them) but they do know how to celebrate in style.
Santiago noticed the lack of robin-egg pout that had been hanging on my face for several weeks leading up to Easter and the day before he arrived with a large smile and an even larger chocolate egg filled with sweets. He had never heard of Easter dinner, apparently this isn’t something they ´do´ at his house, but it worked out lovely enough as it was.Along with his parents we went over to a friends country farm for a little lunch, and a lot of conversation. We dined on pollo a la parrilla (BBQ chicken) with nutmeg and lemon, egg wrapped in crocodile meat (yes, I ate it, it was good, white meat like chicken but slightly […]

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Buenos Aires, a new anti tobacco wave / Buenos Aires en una nueva oleada anti tabaco

April 20, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

Buenos Aires, a new anti-tobacco wave

There aren’t adds on TV or radio anymore. Neither in sports entertainments. The places where you breathe tobacco will be less soon. The anti-tobacco wave in Argentina doesn’t stop. www.dejardefumar.com.ar . Under the slogan: “They promise you pleasure, you buy cancer” they launched a series of messages that want to avoid the proliferation of the consume. They added the campaign to a no-end-chain: in May 2004 the legislative sector of Buenos Aires sanctioned the law that promotes the creation of the “Provincial Permanent Program of Prevention and Control of Tobacco Consume”. The initiative tries to be adequate to the new international treaty approved recently by the World Health Organization (WHO) which banns the ads about tobacco, and is in its ratification process. In enterprises the anti-tobacco crusade started to change some habits. For example, they ask their employers to go to the street to smoke, […]

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The Gift of the Cosmos

April 20, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

At times my coaching clients benefit from visualizing clearly their goal and sending it out as a “request to the Universe.” Afterwards, the petitioner must watch for the signs that the Universe is answering. It will. This I know from many personal experiences.Earlier this month, when the shadows of geographic nostalgia had grown deep and dark, I asked the cosmos to send me to a secluded, sylvan vacation spot, complete with crystal water cascading over boulders like my great-grandmother’s cabin in Yosemite, complete with good weather, forests, and wildflowers.The endless flat expanse of the pampas. . . the wide brown waters of the Paraná. . . the bustle yet boredom of San Nicolás. I yearned for the break usually made necessary by my 90-day tourist visa. But this time, instead of crossing borders (as on nine previous occasions), I followed my husband’s advice and paid for a visa extension.
The moment […]

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Buenos Aires Misteriosa

April 20, 2006 | Filed Under Argentina | No Comments

Buenos Aires Misteriosa.
-A new kind of excursion has been born in Buenos Aires: telling crime stories and mysterious legends to the visitor. Buenos Aires city doesn’t have the characteristic of beautiful sceneries: there aren’t lakes, mountains or seaside, but it is a place where million of stories and legends took place, some of them true… but others we’re not too sure. Considering this, a new kind of tourism has been born – far from the traditional centers of attraction – that tells the visitor, even the “porteños”, the hidden mysteries of this metropolis. People have started to look for this activity more often, because they believed that they knew Buenos Aires, but they realized that it wasn’t completely true. Some foreigners do it, but most of the visitors are from Argentina, from the provinces (people who’ve already been to the city and don’t need to visit the Obelisco!). Visiting the […]

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