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Sushi in South America: an Unlikely Love Story

Posted on 15. May, 2012 by Steph.

I don’t like fish. They are slimy and smelly and bony and weird. Given the choice, I’d rather eat just about anything else (this does not extend to shellfish which will I inhale, I only loathe the suckers with scales). Yes, even sushi. I’ve always been kind of ambivalent about the stuff. Even after eating [...]

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Argentina: The Best and Worst

Posted on 06. May, 2012 by Steph.

So it is finally time to wrap up my time in Argentina. Almost four months in this country, the longest I’ve been in any one place for quite a long time. It’s been fun but I am more than ready to move on! But not before I recap the past few months… Total Days in [...]

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Totally Obvious Things I Did Not Know About Wine

Posted on 29. Apr, 2012 by Steph.

Maybe I have no class (I mean, probably), but I honestly don’t get wine. I love beer. I will go to great lengths to sample local brews and can even discuss them in a semi-intelligent manner. Hand me a glass of wine though, and the most insightful analysis I can usually drum up is that [...]

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Dangit, I Should Have Lived in Rosario

Posted on 24. Apr, 2012 by Steph.

“I think we might have made a mistake,” I told Mike as we walked by the river hand in hand. The sun was shining without a cloud in the sky and several small dogs were frolicking at our feet. All around us happy people jogged, cycled and roller bladed (along with mullets, roller blading never [...]

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Buenos Aires like a Local

Posted on 15. Apr, 2012 by Steph.

When I first announced I was moving to Buenos Aires, people got so excited! General consensus seemed to be that it’s a beautiful, awesome city, and that many people would love to live there. “It’s one of the few international cities I could see myself living in,” one travel writing friend told me. It IS [...]

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The Mighty Alfajore: A Taste Test

Posted on 11. Mar, 2012 by Steph.

Forget candy bars, Alfajores are a national obsession here in Argentina. Originating in the Middle East then transforming once in Spain and again in Argentina, the modern Alfajore is a large cookie filled with dulce de leche (sometimes mousse or jam) and usually covered in chocolate. You can buy fresh ones in bakeries and prepackaged [...]

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Behind the Closed Door: Buenos Aires’ Secret Restaurants

Posted on 21. Feb, 2012 by Steph.

First let’s get one thing straight: The food in Argentina is really delicious. I’ve been eating myself into fat pants all month. There’s only one issue: it’s really, really repetitive. Argentineans seem to never tire of the same old favorites, but for me there are only so many steaks, empanadas and milanesas I can eat [...]

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City of the Dead: La Recoleta

Posted on 14. Feb, 2012 by Steph.

I’m not sure what it says about Buenos Aires that one of it’s biggest tourist attractions is a cemetery. I can’t really think of anywhere else, even London with it’s gorgeous Victorian graveyards, where tourists flock to a cemetery in such high numbers. Of course, I can’t really think of any cemeteries quite like Recoleta: [...]

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El Ateneo-The Most Beautiful Book Store in the World

Posted on 29. Jan, 2012 by Steph.

Well I guess I can stop looking now. El Ateneo on Santa Fe Avenue in Buenos Aires is probably the most impressive book store I’ve ever seen. in the 1920′s it was a theater that could seat over 1000 people. It was later converted to a movie theater, then back to a theater and back [...]

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