April 2009

Gravlax…1,2,3

April 29, 2009

Sleepless in Santiago. Last night I tossed and turned all night long. I caught shut-eye in two hour intervals. In one of the numerous attempts to lull myself back to sleep, I began a rather interesting mind game of taking favorite recipes and converting their ingredient measurements to ratios. Oh yeah, I was that desperate. [...]

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Party’s On! San Antonio Wine Fest

April 27, 2009

This coming Saturday, May 2, the tiny little coastal appellation of San Antonio will be getting on its first wine festival from 11am-6pm. San Antonio is about an hour west of Santiago over the steep coastal mountains. In my opinion, San Antonio is hands down producing many of the best and most interesting wines in [...]

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Saturday Shopping in El Centro

April 25, 2009

  Living on Parque Forestal on the edge of downtown Santiago, I love a Saturday morning (culinary) shopping excursion. It’s a beautiful morning. I head out on my usual route by the the Art Museum and walking towards the centro on Merced. I pop in to Chinese Mark Alimentos, a grocery stocking only Thai, Chinese, and [...]

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Bodega Cruzat: Overflowing with Effervescence

April 24, 2009

Don Pedro is frantic. The bodega alarm won’t stop shreking. It is shrill enough to hurt our ear drums a little. He greets us shrugging his shoulders and laughing in surrender. Suddenly there is silence. Meet Don Pedro Rossell–Argentina’s primo maestro in Sparkling wines. An older man in his early 70s, his smile and enthusiasm [...]

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Apple Mania

April 22, 2009

It’s hard to believe it’s fall here in Chile. On one hand, the leaves are falling and turning lovely shades of crimson. However, temperatures are still oddly hovering around 27-28C (high 80s). Being a warm weather lover, I never thought I would say this, but I would be okay with things cooling off. I’ve had [...]

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Pure Inspiration: Nomads of the Seas

April 20, 2009

Sunday night we came back from what I can only qualify as a mind-blowing four days in Patagonia. We headed down to cover a new gastronomic program called Tasting Chile with the “extreme” fly-fishing/ecotourism cruise called Nomads of the Seas. The objective? Experience the magnificent wildness of untouched Chilean Patagonia, which is largely roadless, through [...]

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