As part of their ongoing protest the against the government’s agricultural policies, Argentine farmers declared a seven day moratorium on the sale of beef and grains as of midnight Friday, March 20.
In light of impending meat shortages, my co-adventurers and I were happy to follow the cow to one of taxista Charly’s favorite Buenos
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Buenos Aires: cradle of tango, stronghold of soccer, metropolis of beef. If you’re trying to get a sense of how deep the local passion for meat runs, Lo de Charly might give you some clues.
The grill is perpetually lit at this 24 hour steak house in Villa Urquiza, and Mario, the 40-something taxista who
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Underworlds abound in Buenos Aires. In its milongas (tango clubs), in its shantytowns, in its discos, bars, and restaurants. This is a city that wears many masks, a place that houses secret rooms behind simple facades.
Sometimes the city reveals its secrets to me: a signless bakery here, an underground milonga there, a speakeasy here,
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In the tango world, you only step off the dance floor in the middle of a song set under the gravest of circumstances. Unless you’ve twisted your ankle, you’ve suddenly fallen ill, or the place is on fire, the so-called practice of “interrupting the tanda ” is generally frowned upon.
No matter how bad
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Sunday lunch in Buenos Aires, as in the rest of the Latin world, is a dearly beloved, family-centered, excess-friendly ritual. But on this particular Sunday, locals dove into the rite with even more passion than usual.
After three weeks of food shortages sparked by a nationwide farmers’ protest against government-sponsored export taxes, the agricultural
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Translation:
Due to recent events that the public is aware of, generated by the depletion of the meat (i.e. beef) sector, we are letting you know that the products we’re serving today from the grill are the following:
Chorizo (sausage) and blood sausage
Kidneys and sweet breads
Pork flank steak
Grilled pork tenderloin
Boneless chicken
Pink salmon
As of last night, this
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Buenos Aires – and Argentina in general – is still enveloped in the conflict that unfolded over two weeks ago when farmers began their strike against the government’s latest export tax increase.
Roadblocks in the provinces have prevented food from entering the city, and grocery store shelves once overflowing with meat and dairy products have
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“The rich man isn’t the one who has the most, but rather the one who needs the least,” Juan the taxista said, “According to that criterion, I’m a very rich man.”
He weaved in and out of the Friday afternoon traffic on Avenida 9 de Julio, sipping mate from a leather gourd and gesticulating at
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Two twenty-something men slice into steaks at a sidewalk table, their mugs of beer half empty, their conversation on pause.
Inside, a family of four chatters around a bottle of wine and ignores the basket of rolls growing stale beneath cold blasts of conditioned air.
At the table next door, I finger the edge of a
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“You want to go someplace I would eat?” Alberto, the mustachioed taxista from Caballito who’d picked us up on Avenida Cordoba in Villa Crespo, was incredulous.
I assured him that that was exactly what my co-adventurer (a former high school Spanish teacher from California) and I were after.
“Let me see. What are you looking for?
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