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MEALS |
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Most travelers go around the world to taste different kinds of meals. The gastronomy adventurers – ready to discover new and tasty roads — will find tempting offers in Buenos Aires.
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BEEF |
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| The top-notch quality of Argentine beef is known all over the world. Cow sweetbreads, small intestines and blood sausages are also delicious when enjoying the asado. |
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FISH |
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| Hake, brótola, flatfish, bass (croaker), sea bream: fine and delicious varieties. The pejerrey is actually criollo; it can only be found in the Argentine maritime coasts, or mountain or plain rivers. |
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PASTAS |
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Italian food is widely spread. The chefs’ creativity outstands with the ample variety of sauces and fillings (fish, shellfish, mushrooms, gourd).
In addition, eating pasta is a tradition among Argentine families gathering for lunch on Sundays.
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PIZZA |
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| It is prepared al molde (baked in a pizza pan) or a la piedra (baked placing a stone, tile or similar in the oven floor); you may eat it with knife and fork or with the hand. Usually, the delicious triangle of pizza is eaten accompanied with fainá. Nearly all of the most famous pizza restaurants are located in Corrientes street. There are also new and stylish restaurants where you can find less traditional recipes of pizza. |
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“EMPANADAS” |
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A sort of small pie filled with different stuffings – minced beef, onion, sweet peppers, raisins and hard-boiled eggs; vegetables; humita (ground corn and spices) and hundreds of other fillings. They may be hot or mild; fried or baked. The most traditional ones are beef empanadas. You eat them with the hand and drink an excellent red wine as accompaniment.
Each Argentine region prides on its distinctive empanadas recipe. Thus, the tourist will see a wide variety of offers: empanadas salteñas, tucumanas and many others.
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BAKERY ITEMS |
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| Facturas, medialunas (croissants), churros (cylindrical fried sweet pastries sparkled with sugar), pastelitos (fried sweet pies) and a variety of flavored breads. The factura is a sweet flaky pastry. It generally accompanies the mate in the morning or afternoon. That’s why bakeries open so early in the morning, almost at dawn. |
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SWEET STUFF |
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| The vigilante is a traditional dessert – a slice of cheese with a slice of jam (quince or sweet-potato jam). The dulce de leche (“milk jam” – milk thickened by hours of simmering with a lot of sugar, pasty consistence and caramel-colored) is used as a filling for cakes and chocolates and as the main ingredient for ice creams, dessert sauces and candies. But usually it is spread on bread, with butter or alone, for breakfast or merienda (tea). You may even eat milk jam with a tablespoon. |
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WINES |
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The Argentine wines are renowned throughout the region, particularly the red ones. Varietal wines coming from the Province of Mendoza are outstanding. The best champagne of the country is also produced there.
The wines of the finest Argentine wineries can be found in the restaurants at Recoleta, Palermo Soho, Las Cañitas, Puerto Madero and Retiro neighborhoods.
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