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When the art of cooking, eating and enjoying makes you think for a while and ponder
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The Australian meat pie is a hand-sized meat pie containing largely minced meat and gravy – occasionally with onions and, more often than not, eaten as a take away meal. Australians love pies and Bob …
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Chiko rolls are part and parcel of Australian life, probably inspired by Chinese spring rolls, and are usually eaten with one hand whilst holding a beer in the other hand. The roll consists of shredded …
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A (religious ) man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time – at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest …
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Don’t cry for me Argentina – the truth is I never left you all through my wild days, my mad existence I kept my promise – don’t keep your distance! The song that Madonna made …
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The word Asado, when translated into English, means barbecue but the Argentinian asado proves, yet again, that translations are very often wrong. Whilst the asado is the Argentinian version of the process of cooking meat …
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Bread has to be one of the most satisfying things to eat and something we all enjoy at every dinner party or barbecue. This bread is more typical of modern Argentinian cooking and is a …
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Black beans can be found on almost all South American menus and Argentina is no exception – especially since one species originated in the Andes and the people of Argentina have been eating them ever …
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To get a discussion on Argentinian wine into perspective we’ll need to have a brief look at how it all began. In the late 15th century when the Americas were being ‘discovered’ by the Europeans, …
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Believe it or not, Argentinians do drink beer – as a matter of fact, the consumption of beer has risen more dramatically than wine over the past decade or so. Celebrations like the Fiestas de …
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Yerba mate is a species of holly that originated in north eastern Argentina, eastern Paraguay and southern Brazil – it was discovered by Moses Bertoni, a Swiss botanist who lived in Paraguay in 1895. It’s a …
