PARRILLADA ARGENTINA

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• Nature Parrillada Mixta - Recipes aNo matter where you travel in Latin America, you'll find grilled meat, carne asada, on the menu. Seafood and poultry are also grilled at parrillas, restaurants specializing in grParticularly popula in Argentina and Colombia, the mixed grill calledParrillada Mixta can be any combination of meats and poultry. In Brazil, the churrascaria rodizio is tremendously popular. Rather than ordering a set combination of meats, diners select from the grilled meats brought around the restaurant on large skewers. When they can eat no more, they turn their table token from the yes to tIn Argentina, the meat is often grilled at the table, and includes various cuts of steak, lamb, pork, sausages, sweetbreads, and internal organs not often found 

INGREDIENTS

• falda - skirt steak
• matambre - flank steak
• chorizo - spicy sausage
• salchicha - long, thin, slightly less spicy sausage
• higado - liver
• riñones - kidneys
• mollejas - sweetbreads
• ubre - udder
• chinchulin - lower intestine
• asado de tira - short rib steak
• bife de costilla- T-bone steak
• bife de chorizo - rib roast steak
• lonjas de carne de res
• lonjas de carne de cerdo

The meat is cooked in huge cuts on a spit over fire, and sections cut by the grill chef, or asador , to be finished to taste, either in the kitchen or at the diner's table on a portable grill.

Grilling is in the following order: sausages, offal, then the steaks. Theparrillada is best when eaten immediately and is served sometimes with lemon wedges and in Argentina, always with Chimichurri, a sauce either purchased or made fresh at home from oregano, garlic, etc.

CRISTINA & THE AIR EUROPA CREW ARE BACK TO BUENOS AIRES

The first rainy day today in our nine-day-holidays. Freezing cold! The temperature has dropped 15°C down.

Cristina and the AIR EUROPA crew are, already, here again. We have been introduced to each of them. They are going to take us back in the flight to Madrid tomorrow.
While they are having a well deserved rest, Amaia & I have gone to the flee market in San Telmo to do our last little shopping, basically, some presents.

Now,  back to the hotel,  we are packing things up as the rain falls down out there in the street.

Nice feeling having her here again!

ANTIQUE MARKET OF SAN TELMO

This market (along with all the side markets) is great fun. It is enormous so it would be difficult to see everything in one go but you can find souvenirs, handicrafts and antiques in abundance. The prices seemed reasonable and there are some really nicely made things. Along the route of the market (Defensa) you can find numerous cafes and ice cream shops. Definitely worth a visit.

MICROCENTRO. SHOPPING TIME

Microcentro is the heart of Buenos Aires -- both geographically and figuratively. Most visitors find themselves walking around this area time and again during their stay, be it because most major attractions are in the neighborhood or because of the wide array of restaurants and shops it offers.

The area is the main financial and cultural hub of the city, and corporate offices and businesses make it one of the most bustling neighborhoods in the capital. Boutiques, local and chain restaurants, dozens of hotels for every budget, attractions, and entertainment venues attract hordes day and night. There are few apartment buildings here, and Microcentro empties out a bit at night and on the weekends, but there's always something going on in the neighborhood, where bars open till late and jet-lagged tourists wander to sites like the Obelisk, the Plaza de Mayo or the Colon Theater at any time of the day or night.

Chaos, traffic and crowded sidewalks are what define this hopping area, but it's also the best place to feel the city and get a sense of what the country really is like. Scenes of opulence and poverty blend like in few other places, with homeless sitting in front of upscale boutiques, and businessmen in suits standing in line at a take-out eatery along with construction workers.

WATCHING AN ARGENTINIAN FILM IN ARGENTINA

RELATOS SALVAJES

"So many argentinian films watched already in so many years..., but the experience today has been a new one: before and after the film,  the audience was speaking  the same way as the characters into the screen!"

La desigualdad, la injusticia y la exigencia del mundo en que vivimos producen que muchas personas se estresen o se depriman. Algunas explotan. Esta es la película sobre ellos. Vulnerables ante una realidad que súbitamente se altera y se torna impredecible, los protagonistas de Relatos Salvajes cruzan la delgada frontera que divide a la civilización de la barbarie. Una traición amorosa, el retorno de un pasado reprimido, o la violencia contenida en un detalle cotidiano, se presentan para impulsarlos al vértigo de perder los estribos, al innegable placer de perder el control.

CALLE LAVALLE, THE STREET OF CINEMAS

Calle Lavalle; the street of cinemas; the reflection of a society; historical centre of Buenos Aires.

Calle Lavalle is a typical street in the centre of Buenos Aires: a cocktail of shopping, gastronomy, and tourism.

When the sun rises, the street wakes up to thousands of people who cross it, and while some are in a hurry, others are just looking for cheap purchases. In the shop windows, you can find anything and everything: from football shirts imported from China, to mugs representing Pope Francis, or a corkscrew with Mafalda’s face. Daydreamers are constantly interrupted by some person handing leaflets trying to sell a tango show, a guided tour or the best exchange rate in the city. The street is lively and filled with restaurants, cafés and little shops but when the sun goes down, it is another face of Lavalle that we discover. Although the red lights of the Bingo never cease to shine, darkness seizes the street as it becomes nobody’s land. The restaurants empty their bins and, almost immediately, a few people come to scavenge the trash to feed their families. What are the secrets of this street?

It was called “La Calle de los Cines” or “The Street of Cinemas”. If you look close enough, you will notice that its floor is filled with engravings: many grey marble slabs are camouflaged in the ground, erased by time and countless footsteps. One of them reads “Luxor: 1920-1993” as it points out the existence of an old cinema. Are these the relics of a glorious past?  It is quite difficult to imagine that two centuries ago this street was called Merino and it was merely made of dust. A few single-storey houses made of adobe welcomed the first inhabitants of Buenos Aires. The street witnessed the passing of history: soldiers, lovers and dreamers. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lavalle was filled with cafés, cabarets and brothels for the lonely souls of the time.

MALBA. MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTS

With an impressive permanent collection and a continuous stream of new and exciting temporary exhibitions, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) should be at the top of the museum list for art lovers visiting Argentina’s capital. Since its founding in 2001, The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has dedicated itself to the preservation, dissemination, and integration of modern and contemporary Latin American art worldwide.

Located on the tranquil and historic Avenida Figueroa Alcorta inPalermo, the MALBA building was constructed to blend in with its surroundings and encourage a natural interaction between its visitors and the art it showcases. At MALBA, even a bench is not just a bench:  museum-goers in need of a break find themselves sitting on planks of wood that curve, wind, and intertwine on the floor and climb up the walls of the sun-drenched four-story building.

Inside, the gallery space is sectional yet fluid: visitors seamlessly transition from one period of art to the next. Comprised of a selection of over 200 works from the private collection of founder, Eduardo Constantini, MALBA’s permanent collection spans the entirety of the 20^th century, beginning with the vanguard.

The artwork moves from the social and political art of the 1930s, to the surrealism of the 1940s and 50s, the conceptual, minimalist, and pop art of the 1960s and 1970s, and culminates with the contemporary.

Painting, sculpture, photography, print, drawing, and installation are all highlighted. Along the journey visitors come into contact with major works by Xu Solar, Diego Rivera, Antonio Berni, Frida Kahlo and Jorge de la Vega, and a host of other modern masters from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

TANGO

"El abrazo es más importante que el paso"

You can't escape tango in Buenos Aires. It is danced on the trains and in the streets. Restaurants in the bohemian neighborhoods of San Telmo and La Boca try to lure tourists inside with exhibition dancing outside their doors. Taxi drivers play tango music on their radios, and giant billboards promote choreographed tango shows