by Eileen | Aug 27, 2015 | chile, food, food and drink, shopping, supermarket
In addition to the where do I buy hazelnuts/brown sugar/dried ginger questions of yore, many of which I have answered here, in this post about tostadurias, is the ongoing question of where to buy Asian food products. Maybe you’re looking for rice noodles,...
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 | 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 16, 2014 | food, food and drink, supermarket, Uncategorized
So I came back from some time away, and saw that the flavor of Chile had been settled upon, at least until the end of the World Cup. Chile tastes like onions and tomatoes. Specifically, those two items as they are combined into “ensalada chilena” which...
by Eileen | Oct 2, 2012 | chile, coffee, food, santiago, shopping, supermarket
(Last updated 3/15, with reader help) I present to you a culinary variable problem: Where can I buy X in Chile? Now solve for X. The parade of people who ask the question, “Where can I buy X” in Santiago is constant. Products that seem overpriced or...
by Eileen | Jun 25, 2012 | bicycle, chile, shopping, supermarket
A brand new, poshish mall opened up within a stone’s throw of some of Santiago’s consumer-goods-happy-and-(mostly)-budget-to-support-it neighborhoods, Providencia and Las Condes. The two neighborhoods are split by the street Tobalaba, which wends its way...
