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A guide to Generala: A game for the Holiday Season
As we all know, the Holidays are a time to spend with family
and loved ones. It is important to have good company during these hard times we
are all going through, but how we spend our precious time with them is
important too. So, in order to keep the spirits high and get a little
distracted from the harsh reality we bring you a traditional game.“La Generala” This typical dice game doesn’t have archives or testimonies
about its origin. It is believed that it got famous in Latin America arou
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20th Jan 2021
How to make Alfajores de Maicena?
In Argentina we are proud of a lot of things: Tango, Messi, Maradona, beautiful landscapes and even the Pope, but if you ask us, food is definitely one of the things we are most proud of. The traditional dishes and pastries of our country are so simple and special we wish everyone in the world could have the opportunity to taste them. That is why today we bring you an easy, simple and perfect recipe to try at home and delight the palate of your loved ones. Alfajores are one of our most clas
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23rd Dec 2020
Mate cocido: Yerba Mate in tea-bags
Did you know that you
can also drink tea of Yerba Mate? Yes, we know that the best characteristic of
Yerba Mate is to drink it from the Mate gourd, but as you may also know, there
are people who think that sharing the same bombilla
can be a little filthy. So, in this new chapter on how to drink Yerba Mate we
bring you a solution for these people.Mate cocido is not the
same as Mate. As we mentioned before, drinking mate in Argentina and some other
Latin American countries is almost an ordi
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22nd Dec 2020
The Christmas Dinner in Argentina
As we told you before,
the Christmas Eve in Argentina is a warm one. We are in the first days of
summer so the temperatures are usually the first high temperatures of the
season. That is why our Christmas dinner is mostly full of different light and
fresh dishes or appetizers instead of heavy and high in carbohydrates ones.
Then, we also have a sort of after dinner. What we usually call the “Sweet
Table”. But we will leave that one for the next post.Today, we are going to
talk to you abou
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17th Dec 2020
The Christmas dinner in Argentina: Part II
As we anticipated on
our last blog entry, today we will tell you all about our after dinner table on
Christmas Eve. Always leave the sweetest part for the end.Like we mentioned
before, holidays season in Argentina lands just at the start of summer. That is
the main reason why our dinners are generally on the lighter side of the
spectrum. But when we talk about the sweet desserts we overlook those
situations and like to go a bit overboard so is probably common to find our
after dinner tabl
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17th Dec 2020