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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....
a man and his zapallo
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...
Rodízio
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...
torta chilena?
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...
No one ever mentions the cows
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...
vendedor
vendedor Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereThis shaved-ice seller is so jaded, he doesn't even look at the water, or glance at the pale sunbather beside him. I wonder what he's listening to on his MP3 player, and how clean his hand is as he leans it atop one...
dog inside/outside
dog inside/outside Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereEvery now and then, I'll be walking around and see a dog that believes he's outside. He sniffs the air, and people watches, defends his territory with a snarl or a bark. With the head and feet outside, he...
Gente Torrante
The point of the story that T, a gringa, was telling her husband was how preposterous it was that a confused man approached the two of us, obvious foreigners, speaking English, and T with cascading blonde hair, for directions to an address he had on a furled up piece...
in hot water
For years people have been extolling the virtues of green tea. Antioxidants! Antiaging! Anticancer! Antianti! It's time for me to come out as anti green tea. I'm sure it's healthy, and it will save my life and make me a stronger athlete and a better...
tienen buen lejos
tienen buen lejos Cargado originalmente por bearshapedsphereIn Chile to say that someone has "buen lejos" means that they look good from a distance. I'd like to say that was a witty way of me saying that these gents look better from a distance than they do up close,...
