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Eating Chilean Pantrucas—noodles 6 Jun 2013 | 05:53 am
If you, by some old man’s whim, should decide to go to a “creole” restaurant or to one that is “Chilenized” to ask for pancuritas in tongue broth, or pancuritas by themselves, it is very possible that...
Blue-Egg Mapuche Chickens 26 Apr 2012 | 01:51 am
The old stories speak of a pact between the hens and the people of the land [the Mapuche]. The hens would give the people blue eggs and the people of the land would care for them and honor them in ce...
Do they eat Chilean Seabass (Dissostichus eleginoides) in Chile? 26 Jan 2012 | 07:13 am
The short answer is “almost never,” but there’s more to it than that. Fish names are funny things. Wherever they went, European colonists called the local fish by the names of fish back home in Euro...
Eating Chilean Erizos, Sea Urchins 31 Dec 2011 | 04:45 am
Like foie gras, egg yolks and pork belly, sea urchins have a lusciousness and weight that make chefs drool. “The mouth-feel is pure cholesterol,” said Michelle Bernstein-Martinez …who helped create a ...
German-Chilean food / Comida chilena-alemana 4 Dec 2011 | 03:50 am
On my first day in Chile, I crossed the river from my hostel to Bellavista, Santiago’s “Bohemian” neighborhood, sat down at an out door cafe and ordered a beer in my usually serviceable gringo Spanish...
Chilean Chicha 19 Sep 2011 | 10:12 am
We sat down by the fire and they immediately placed before us two good looking pitchers of chicha. My portion was clear, sweet and spicy, and the chief toasted me with it, saying that I should eat and...
Loco over locos, Chilean “abalone” 7 Sep 2011 | 04:35 am
Photo: Hugo Carrillo Locos, Chilean “abalone” (Concholepas concholepas),[1] are among Chile’s, and my wife’s, favorite shellfish. And of course the name, from the Mapuche language, makes for some in...
Chilean Lamb 30 Jul 2011 | 04:46 am
Per capita consumption of lamb in Chile is exceedingly low. It’s around a half a kilo per person per year, even less than horse meat. Hardy Avilés, “Cordero todo el Año” I wonder why. It’s...
Plateada – Chilean pot roast 12 May 2011 | 02:17 am
With the changing seasons— Santiago does have seasons, you know--my wife puts away my shorts and tee-shirts and brings out the corduroy jeans, long sleeved shirts and sweaters. And wants winter foo...
Vegetarian Chile 1 May 2011 | 04:59 am
If you arrived here in search of that North American favorite, vegetarian chili, you have misgoogled; this is about vegetarian food in Chile. But it might be worth reading further; Chile has an exte...
