Beach between Loanco and Faro Carranza January is a most colorful and productive time in the coastal area of central Chile where the two poor but proud villages of Chanco and Loanco…
Category: Food and Drink
“Viva Chile” Part 3: “18” Cuisine
At the start of the 21st century, Chileans were in the process of recovering their government and their collective sanity after way too many years of internal struggle, but there was a…
MUSSELS REVISITED
Why is the mussel relegated to “second class” status on dining tables in Chile, and virtually ignored in writings of Chile’s leading poet Pablo Neruda? We made this query in an…
What’s Wrong with Mussels, Neruda?
Pablo Neruda loved the sea, and wine, and food, and women. But there is something fishy about Neruda; he did not write about mussels, and he should have. Neruda wrote poems about…
The Last Pisco Sour
THE LAST PISCO SOUR In the departure lounge of the Santiago international airport (“Pudahuel” to us old-timers, and “Arturo Merino Benitez* officially), they recently put a wonderful bright sign up over the…