“I wish I could eat with you,” said Jorge the taxista, “But I really can’t. My wife would kill me.”
“You’re right,” I agreed, “You can’t.”
“Yep, it’s just too dangerous. I’m a handsome guy. My wife doesn’t let me go out alone. When I get fixed up, you better watch out.”
“I can imagine.”
We were
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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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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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“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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Chiquilín,
dame un ramo de voz,
así salgo a vender
mis vergüenzas en flor.
Little one,
give me a strand of voice
so I can go out and sell
my embarrassments in flowers.
So goes the chorus of “Chiquilín de Bachin,” the heart wrenching tango by Horacio Ferrer that chronicles the desperation of a Buenos Aires street child.
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Friday, 10:30 PM – I invoked the spirit of Anthony Bourdain as I pulled a tendril of grilled intestine off the table-side barbecue at Parrilla 29.
Hours earlier, riveted to the cocky chef’s Travel Channel show, I’d watched him munch on a piece of dirt-roasted warthog rectum in Namibia. If I ever hoped to gain
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I scanned the menu and suppressed my alarm.
Twelve laminated, leather-bound pages sang the praises of dishes that spanned the globe and defied the season: Asian stir fry, homemade pasta prepared forty ways, caprese salad, Moroccan-style chicken in curry cream, and salmon crepes with pink sauce to match.
Los Chanchitos (translation: The Little Pigs) also devoted
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“I have sort of a strange request,” I said, sliding over the ripped backseat of the four-door Fiat, “Can you take me to your favorite restaurant?”
The taxi driver stopped in the middle of the street – oblivious to the honking cars that swerved around us – and turned to stare at me.
“I’m a food
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