by Eileen | Jul 8, 2014 | chile, feria, food, food and drink, santiago, shopping, supermarket
At the risk of pulling rank, I will not entertain you with tales of times of yore, or as we like to call them antaño, from when you couldn’t get cheddar cheese in Chile to save your life, tortilla chips were something special, and you had to eat local junk food...
by Eileen | Jun 1, 2014 | bicycle, chile, feria, food
My new upstairs neighbors have given me a gift, with which they have occasionally taken away my sleep. They start riotously laughing sometimes at 7:30 in the morning, on you know, a Saturday. This, as you might expect, wakes me up. And you would think that after the...
by Eileen | Apr 26, 2014 | chile, feria, food, santiago, shopping
So. First of all, before I go to crazy on the colorfulness of mostly vegetables with which I am going to make great deliciousness in the kitchen, let me assure you that someone sucked all the color out of Santiago. I will surely post some beautiful photos of how...
by Eileen | Dec 14, 2013 | chile, feria, food and drink
On a recent trip down to Temuco, where I finally met someone I’ve known online for years, over a lunch that was too big for anyone to eat, we got to talking about my feria reports. Prices are much higher in Santiago, my friend-in-the-computer said. I have heard...
by Eileen | Oct 7, 2013 | chile, feria, food
Overheard at the Ñuñoa Feria in Santiago, Chile from Eileen Smith on Vimeo. If you’ve ever walked around in a public place, letting the words wash over you, you know some voices carry more than others. And if you happen to be in a foreign country, or the...
by Eileen | Jun 10, 2013 | bicycle, chile, feria, food, language, travel
Sometimes you will be walking around in the feria, and you will see bags of pale green something in a bag. it will be double-knotted on top, and flattened into a squared-off brick inside its bag, as though you were going to make sandbags out of it to stem an...