Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (2006)

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33 points·jger15··4 comments

I know Argentine culture very well. I still drink mate a couple of times a week even if I am not there.

I agree on most things written in this articles, except that sadly, very few can afford eating meat two times a day (and it's not advised either).

Not agree at all with the rant about dulce de leche. I traveled around the globe, and I can tell that many countries will be better countries if they include dulce de leche in their recipes (specially Italian pastry and ice cream).

A mention to roasted molleja (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizzard) would be deserved, since it's one of the most appreciated component of the asado (roasted meat).

The article is about restaurants, mostly. There is also the Sunday morning tradition of making asado, in family, where the man prepares the meat, and the women make the salad and side dishes.

Argentine here, drinking lot of mate every day, and of course doing asado on weekends! Maybe we eat too much meat, yes, but it's not too expensive vs other countries, in terms of quality too. Dulce de leche and the ice cream is one of the best tastes that you can try. We have a lot(really a lot) of milk derivatives like yogurts, creams and cheese too.

Really entertaining! For whatever reason the writing style made me think of this classic:

https://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html

Thanks for linking this. Didn't know about it, and loving it !

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