by Eileen | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Years ago, just having barely moved to Chile, I was enjoying what was to be the first of many rainstorms. It had rained in the morning, the mountains were out, and I, along with every other santiaguino, old and new, was craning my neck to the east to stunning views....
by Eileen | Jun 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
a man and his zapallo Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereWhen you go to buy squash in Chile, most of the time you will buy squash. Not a squash, mind you, just some. A chunk, or corte, if you will. People eat quite a bit of it, usually in cazuela, Chile’s...
by Eileen | May 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you walk the streets in Brazil for long enough, surely you will get hungry. And eventually you might get so hungry that it will occur to you that you should eat vast quantities, in what in Argentina is known as a tenedor libre (lit: free fork) and what we call in...
by Eileen | May 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
torta chilena? Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereBefore I moved to Chile, I read the classified ads for apartments because I wanted to know what I was getting myself into, financially, and spacewise and any other way I could before transplanting myself. One...
by Eileen | May 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
cowsies Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereOn a recent bike trip in Costa Rica, the burning sun popped up over the horizon promptly at six AM, crawled inexorably across the sky, impossibly noon-like in its intensity for hours on end, only to disappear in barely...
