in the park across the Congreso.

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along the Costanera Norte.

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Men playing chess or dominoes in the park Rivadavia.

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Puerto Madero on a sunny Sunday afternoon. In the background you can see numerous new residential high-rises of up to 50 stories.

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La Boca has a particular architecture, houses of wood and veneer, both with iron balconies that have been preserved through the streets of the neighborhood. The colors of the houses represent an endless variety of paint leftover that the sailors brought to their houses, as the paint was expensive and there was barely sufficient amount to paint the entire house of the same color, they used till the very last drop. They first used up the paint for the frames, then painted the walls and went on painting till they finished the tin of paint.

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People playing chess in the garden across the Congress. Maybe that person had too much sun, that he put the cushion over his head?

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Colonia de pingüinos magallánicos [Magellan penguins colony]. Took this picture navigating the Canal Beagle in Ushuaia. First time I was seeing penguins, they’re really cute. When I got back home, I immediately watched the movie March of the Penguins (La Marche de l’empereur), a very touching documentary.

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Caught those 2 with the Sigma lens while going for a walk along the Costanera Norte.

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A note to all Argentinians and foreigners living in Argentina [and people who visited the country and have some interesting ideas to share]:

I’ve been contacted by a researcher working for the Travel Channel called “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern. For those of you who know that show Andrew is a food columnist, culinary expert, dining critic, radio talk show host, TV personality and chef. The network is investigating to film an hour episode in January in South America and Argentina is a potential candidate. The show is a series of one-hour episodes that explore culture through food. They highlight foods that are unique to the area they are visiting and that are “bizarre” to those of us who are not natives. They are also very interested in traditional foods and methods of preparation. For Argentina to be selected, the network needs to find the more foods and ideas, therefore the better the chance for them to be able to film in a particular location.

The researcher asked me for any suggestions for unusual foods they can find in Argentina. Here are a few examples of the types of things they look for:

1. Markets that have unusual foods
2. Restaurants that serve unusual foods
3. Chefs that specialize in something bizarre
4. Interesting street food
5. Traditional foods that have survived generations
6. Foods that are common for family meals at home
7. New food trends that are popular
8. Activities that are popular or representative of the culture that have some sort of food element to them
9. A food that is made in a very interesting way that we could show the process of
10. Interesting people who do something with unusual food

Or any other bizarre foods that might not fit any of these categories, but are
interesting and can fit in the show somehow!

Also, because Argentina is such a large country, they will need to focus on one
or two areas. They are assuming that Buenos Aires will be one location. What
other area do you think would have the best unusual foods?

So this is the email that was sent to me. It’s a difficult task to identify in Argentina about bizarre food and apart from weird things that one can eat in a parilla [chinchulines for example], it is hard to think about anything bizarre in the Argentinian cuisine.

So I need your help and suggestions about all the above- if you have any ideas, please send them my way ok? It’d be very interesting to have Argentina being shown on the Travel Channel in that Bizarre foods show next year.

I’ll wait for your suggestions!

Beso,
Kiki.

Andrew Zimmern from the Bizarre Foods show on the Travel Channel.

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Perito Moreno glacier. El Calafate.

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