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Barrio Brasil Feria Report. Newsflash: prices up
On a recent trip down to Temuco, where I finally met someone I’ve known online for years, over a lunch that was too big for anyone to eat, we got to talking about my feria reports. Prices are much...
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Hit or Miss, more things to drink, all in Providencia
Back by popular demand (okay, one person asked for it), I’ve got a hit or miss for you. First, a miss, with a qualifier. I was on the fifth comuna of a 5-comuna tour, with meetings and visits and such...
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What does your country taste like? In Chile, it’s tomatoes and onions
So I came back from some time away, and saw that the flavor of Chile had been settled upon, at least until the end of the World Cup. Chile tastes like onions and tomatoes. Specifically, those two items...
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Availability of goods in Chile re: workarounds, or yes, I really did make...
At the risk of pulling rank, I will not entertain you with tales of times of yore, or as we like to call them antaño, from when you couldn’t get cheddar cheese in Chile to save your life, tortilla...
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What’s in a feria? The Valdivia feria report
On a recent trip I took to research two different stories, one short and one long, I knew that one of my hotspots would be the diminutive feria fluvial or riverside market in Valdivia. Valdivia is...
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Feria Report, Montreal Version (Sami Fruits), with bonus text
Some dear friends of mine moved to Montreal last year. It was a big loss for me, they were some of my closest neighbors, and good friends, one of them someone who I often refer to as my cousin. We’ve...
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Be the dog in the red coat. Eyes open in Santiago’s Bio Bio flea market
This freezing Sunday, I felt inspired to go to Bio Bio, the largest flea market in Santiago. Perhaps because that’s where my cellphone, which was stolen, and I recovered on Wednesday night (good story,...
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Three ways to eat an empanada, and from the middle ain’t one (Los 33)
I went to see Los 33 over the weekend, the movie about the Chilean miners who were pulled out of the mine, alive, in one of the world’s most spectacular (and quite honestly, unexpected) mine rescues....
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Where to buy Asian food products in Santiago, Chile
The elusive buckwheat flour, found at E-Mart. In addition to the where do I buy hazelnuts/brown sugar/dried ginger questions of yore, many of which I have answered here, in this post about tostadurias,...
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How to make your casero smile (aka: feria report, pasamos agosto version)
Midweek feria visit! The weekends have been busy or I’ve had stuff to do early, and haven’t got a chance to head down to the Vega of late, so my fridge was really hurting. However, spring has sprung,...
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Feria report, with tomatoes with real tomato taste
There are times when you go to the feria obligado, you go because you have to, because when you open the fridge there is more space than stuff, and when dinnertime comes, you think, “I could eat rice...
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Alto En, Exploring Chilean Memes, Nutrition and the Fiestas Patrias (Tiki...
One thing I love about Chile is how readily artists, graphic designers and other creative types take anything that’s happening in news, or in the world, and immediately incorporate it into memes,...
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The Joy of a Springtime Feria Haul, now with fennel!
For those of us who shop at the feria, as opposed to the supermarket (though I do supplement there occasionally), one of the greatest joys is the arrival of new fruit and veg after the...
View ArticleSlicing and Dicing in Chile. Or You Know, Peeling. Tomatoes, of all things.
“Always peel away from you.” That was the advice my mother gave me in the kitchen when she was giving me tasks like peeling potatoes, or apples. It seemed so effortless to just glide the blade along...
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I’ve got a purseful of ginger and cilantro, an embarrassment of riches/feria...
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...
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How to learn to love a new flavor, experiences with boldo tea
Before living in Latin America, I could probably count the number of times I’d drunk tea on purpose on my two hands. Sure, there were the back-from-India chai preparations in the 80s and 90s, but the...
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In Which Our Protagonist Makes the Most Out of Coconut
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...
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New-to-me Santiago Feria Report
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...
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The woman who saved my artichoke
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...
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Empanada hands and sausage fingers, language and food (para variar)
Which ones are your feet? “My feet look like meat-filled pastries,” said C, as she looked up at her legs, which were up on the wall as she laid on the bed, an L-shape familiar to many cyclists and...
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