Coffee and medialunas
My favorite order whenever I go to a coffee place
Delivery man
This is how your groceries get delivered in Buenos Aires. If you live very close from the supermarket, or for one or two persons-delivery, the delivery boy [repartidor] will walk to your place, as in the picture. If they have to do multiple deliveries, they will use a delivery van [camioneta de reparto].
I took these 2 pictures last week during the expo inauguration of some 120 pictures from Steve McCurry. The expo is opened till end of March. For photography lovers, the expo is worth a visit.
Collecting trash
The city and its constant problem: the amount of trashes piling up frequently in the streets of Buenos Aires.
Hammer racing
This is the Robby Gordon’s hammer whom finished in 3rd position at the 2009 Dakar. More news here [in Spanish].
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Help the food program on the Travel Channel called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern to film in Argentina!
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.
Looking at the moon
Last Friday night, Atilio was able to take this shot. Equipped with a tripod, we were trying our new Sigma 70-300mm lens. Better say we are really happy about our new purchase :=)
Maradona graffiti
This is a re-post first published on May 28th, 2006.
Maradona is on the news lately more than usual, and of course this is due to the defeat of Argentina vs. Brazil in the World Cup Qualification, and people starts blaming him and criticizing his position as a coach. Let’s see what Argentina can do in tomorrow’s match vs. Paraguay.
Cop and candies
This is a re-post first published on February 13th, 2006.
Police guy looking at sweets in front of a kiosko. This kind of kiosko is commonly found in Buenos Aires. Usually inside shopping galleries or street’s kioskos. The kind of sweets one can find is incredible. That explains maybe his face expression and wondering what he’ll buy ;=)
Bus signs
This is a re-post first published on February 5th, 2006.
For the first time visitor, those signs may not be as easy to notice as they are for the locals. Sometimes, and not for every bus stop in the city, the signs are in a very bad shape as shown in the photo. Usually they “hang” up on telegraphic posts. Often bent in 2, it is hard to read the number on them. Not all the bus stops have this kind of marking, and the traditional bus stops, like a covered shelter, have the buses numbers clearly stated on the front.
Coffee with tostadas
This is a re-post first published on January 27th, 2006.
Typical, in Buenos Aires, to order a cafe con leche (coffee & milk) and some tostados (let´s call it toast) of ham and cheese. Made of bread´s crumbs, super thin, they represent a good snack in all coffee places in Argentina.
Infectado
As swine flu hit Argentina pretty bad and Buenos Aires particularly over the last few weeks, measures are taken in the subway to disinfect the trains. In the picture, I played with the words a little so that it reads infectado [infected]. The “real” word is Spanish being “desinfectado” ;=)
Mate for tourists
This is the typical touristic mate gourd, used for drinking mate. It is common to see calabash [a vine grown for its fruit] gourds. The gourd is known as a mate or a guampa. You can read the first posting I did about Mate here.
