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Posts by: Eileen
Avellanas.
Avellanas are hazelnuts. And you know hazelnuts (or filberts as I used to call them). Tasty and creamy, nutty and a good addition to chocolate to make the delicious and transfat-rich Nutella.
And they look like this: (and by the way, I got them from one of my favorite tostadurías (el Mataquito) for semi-interesting [...]
I have a friend who I have known since college, since we strung a nylon fishing line from one apartment to another, a story or so down, and slid silly plastic toys down to each other. We also used to swim laps together, and when we lived in DC at the same time, even played [...]
This is a membrillo. Or a quince, if you prefer. Judging by the trees it grows on, it must be related to apples and pears. It’s delicious cooked into a paste with a bunch of sugar and spread on bread. It’s also good baked. What is not great is membrillo eaten out [...]
My day started off inauspiciously.
“Are you Chilean, are you Spanish? What are you?”
This was what the police officer who first offered to shake my hand (I politely declined), and then demanded to see my documents said to me. I guess I look particularly subversive today in yoga pants and on [...]
On Sunday, there were many plans, there were, with many friends, some of whom even have blogs. But in the end, I deep-cleaned a “zone” of my apartment (if you know me, this doesn’t surprise you, that I split it into zones), and then called Abby to see if she was anti-horseracing.
There [...]
About two years ago, I missed a much-anticipated hike. I woke up extra early, had snacks and water and everything packed, and even had my hiking poles in my hand and my hydration backpack strapped on, when the phone rang, (by my estimation at 7:15 AM, giving me plenty of time to get to the [...]
There are so many special Chilean things going on in this picture (of a sign) that I hardly even know where to start. First of all, I have to tell you that one summer, before I realized that science is hard (!), I studied geology at Penn State. I was there on [...]
I am often asked if I “know all of Chile” or have traveled most of it. Sort of yes and no. I mean, I’ve come in through the tippy top from Peru and been to Arica, which is far, far from home, and yet I’d never been up into the Aconcagua valley, to San Felipe, [...]
Sometimes, inexplicably, you aren’t doing what you really like to do. No one knows why, but despite enjoying exercise, or seeing certain friends or taking long walks, you’re sitting still, seeing the wrong people (or no one at all) and not walking anywhere. And things are peculiarly off, like using the wrong white balance, which [...]
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