by Eileen | Dec 9, 2018 | chile, feria, food, health, stomach snafu
There is this piece of Smith family lore, by which I usually mean to introduce something false, which I will later disprove or reframe, except in this case it’s true. It tells of a time when I, fresh from a brutally cold winter in Santiago, landed in my...
by Eileen | Jan 20, 2018 | feria, food, stomach snafu
Food is our great connector. No matter where you go, you can start a conversation about food and nearly everyone will have something to say about it. I think it’s a fair assumption, judging by Facebook and Instagram (should I be following you? please leave me...
by Eileen | Nov 13, 2017 | chile, feria, food, food and drink
A different kind of feria report. As some of you may know, as I’ve mentioned it here, and in real life, I’m dealing with what I have referred to as a “stomach snafu.” It seems to be histamine intolerance and I won’t bore you with the...
by Eileen | Aug 31, 2017 | chile, coffee, feria, food, food and drink, health, santiago, shopping
Oh, the feria. If there’s a constant in my life, and you are also in my life, you know I live by the feria. Cheaper fruit and veg, no long lines, and truthfully, it’s just one of the joys for me of living in Chile. I am still mid-snafu re: stomach, so most...
by Eileen | Jul 13, 2017 | chile, feria, food, food and drink, health, santiago, shopping
What’s in a coconut? Several things conspired to make this event happen. First, a friend recently was complaining that you can’t get fresh coconut in Santiago. Not true, I cried! And then set out to find them, and find them I did, in the Vega, in my case,...
by Eileen | Jan 15, 2017 | chile, feria, food, food and drink, travel
After a truly mind-bending trip to Aysén, the far, lost south of Chile (yes, again, yes, I am that lucky), on the Carretera Austral, way down to Chile Chico, where burgeoning fruit trees literally line the streets, but vegetables are harder to come by for...
