Posted in Argentina, Chorizo, Meat, Recipe, culture, empanadas, history, offal, sauce, sausage, spices, stew, travel, tripe on Nov 20th, 2009
La Cupertina, at the corner of Cabrera and Godoy Cruz in the charming Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo Viejo, is reputed to have the best traditional Tucuman empanadas in the city. And, certainly, they are rather good. So tasty, in fact, that we bought a dozen for carry-out the day we left Argentina and nursed [...]
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Posted in America, Chorizo, Colombian, Restaurant Review, arepas, caldo, chicharron, diversity, eating, empanadas, indulgent meal, podcast, red beans, restaurant, rice on Feb 5th, 2009

Cositas Ricas, A Colombian Food Primer:
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This podcast is an interview with our friend and native Colombian Juan Camilo Osorio covering not just the Colombian restaurant – Cositas Ricas – we visited together, but also some background on Colombian food and how it is eaten.
Some readers may remember back in the early fall when we posted about Bandeja Paisa, the gut-busting [...]
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