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Buenos Aires Flashback: Top 10 Cabbie-Recommended (Beefless) Foods

October 21, 2010

If you're living in or traveling to the Metropolis of Beef, there are quite a few non-bovine treats that are unique to Buenos Aires and totally worth tasting. Here are my ten taxista-recommended favorites.

Diego’s Hangout

March 17, 2009

“Driving a taxi is the most stressful job I’ve ever had,” Diego said on a recent ride from Ezeiza airport. But after three years behind the wheel, the thirty-year-old cabbie with a rhinestone in his ear has developed some coping mechanisms. He’s traded psychotherapy for gardening. He plays soccer for at least two hours

Passion and Pizza: The Journey to San Antonio

April 22, 2008

The following entry is rated R, as it contains adult material. “Aren’t you going to invite me to eat with you?” “Only if it’s lunch and nothing more,” I said. “No kisses?” “No kisses.” “Not even a kiss on the cheek?” “This is how it’s going to be,” I said, “We have lunch. I

A Compromise at El Imperio

January 18, 2008

“It’s all taxistas and all they serve is fast food,” Guillermo, the thirty-something cabbie, shakes his gelled head, “It’s not a place for you. There’s no way I’m taking you there. ” “There” is Guillermo’s usual lunch spot: the gas station on the corner of Thames and Charcas in the Palermo Viejo neighborhood. Although

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Buenos Aires Flashback: Top 10 Cabbie-Recommended (Beefless) Foods

Diego’s Hangout

Passion and Pizza: The Journey to San Antonio

A Compromise at El Imperio

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