by Eileen | Apr 13, 2015 | feria, food, food and drink, Uncategorized
Some dear friends of mine moved to Montreal last year. It was a big loss for me, they were some of my closest neighbors, and good friends, one of them someone who I often refer to as my cousin. We’ve lived in a bunch of the same places, had many same...
by Eileen | Mar 5, 2015 | feria, food, food and drink, shopping, travel
On a recent trip I took to research two different stories, one short and one long, I knew that one of my hotspots would be the diminutive feria fluvial or riverside market in Valdivia. Valdivia is lucky enough, or smart enough or pretty enough (not sure which) to be...
by Eileen | Feb 2, 2015 | chile, feria, food, haha, language, supermarket
How do you call a cat? In the United States, we make kind of a psss psss psss psss sound. I often make a more of a clicking sound, which one time in Cuernavaca, in Mexico, I was told by a groundskeeper, is how you call a rabbit. Which seems odd, because though cats...
by Eileen | Jan 21, 2015 | chile, feria, food, shopping
Salad is upon us. With the Peruvian stalls having well-priced berros (watercress) and rúcula (arugula), and the new hydroponic lettuces leafy and light, it’s a fairly amazing time for salad in this world. Tomatoes are good, as are eggplant, and the mangos...
by Eileen | Dec 8, 2014 | chile, feria, food, photography, spanish
How many times can you look at photos of food arranged on my living room table (yes, you read that right), coffee table or balcony table? Many, judging by how long I’ve been at this. Thought I’d do something a little different today, details to follow. But...
by Eileen | Sep 13, 2014 | chile, feria, food, santiago
Dear Internet, It has been more than a month and a half since my last feria visit. My penance is that I feel like I have been through a nutritional wasteland with short visits to the paradises of the land of fruit and veg. Let me be clear. I am not an adherent to the...