Food

New Year’s Eve Traditions in Chile

29 December 2011
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New Year’s Eve Traditions in Chile At the strike of midnight you may see entire families gulping down lentils and grapes which they wash down with champagne (hopefully without swallowing gold rings) which is then quickly followed by turning their yellow underwear from inside-out back to normal before taking their suitcase for a walk around [...]

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Andrés Carne de Res – Colombia

14 December 2011
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Andrés Carne de Res Restaurant – Colombia Imagine Tim Burton organizing a carnival on acid, the end result… Andres Carne de Res – Fun fantasy, bizarre, pure energy… and it’s supposed to be a restaurant. What makes this iconic Colombian restaurant so amazing is its ambiance. First the decoration, full of the most random stuff [...]

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Curanto en Olla – Angelmó

13 November 2011
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Curanto en Olla – Angelmó Something on our list of 200 things to do in Chile is to have a seafood dish at Angelmó. Well, Ange and I did this back in 2008 as a part of a 3-day weekend trip to exploring Puerto Montt (Thanks to Hotel Club Presidente Puerto Montt for inviting us). [...]

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Food, glorious food (from back home)

29 September 2011
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If you read my ramblings you should know that I am a kiwi. (If not, visit the about page, though only if you have a warped sense of humour). AND, in case you didn’t know, New Zealanders are called kiwis (less syllables, much easier to say, especially after a couple of pints). No, we are [...]

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El Vagón – Hidden Secret of El Valle del Elqui

21 January 2011
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(El vagón is Spanish for the passenger car of a train, or coach or carriage if you’re from the UK). Someone came up with the brilliant idea of plonking a century old passenger car in the middle of a vineyard, filling it with antiques to create a turn-of-last-century ambience and renting it out only to [...]

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Food I miss from the United States

14 January 2011
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I swear that every day something happens here in Santiago that makes me miss a thing or a food item from the U.S. Icing Most recently, it has been icing. Icing, or frosting, is the sugary-sweet cream that covers a cake. Here, cakes have a thin layer of icing, which isn’t always sweet enough for [...]

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