ramblings

Alfajors - two sweet biscuits filled with dolce dulece, sinfuly delicious.

Lorco stew, heavy navy bean type of stew with sausage and bacon. The bacon is more or less chunks of pork fat still attached to chunks of bone. It's good but the constant pulling of bone out of your mouth is sort of a buzz kill.

The Italian food here is fantastic.

Malbec is the main grape. Instead of being used as a blending grape like in France here it stands on its own. You will find Trapiche almost everywhere here. It is the default house wine.

The four way intersecton without stop signs or traffic lights. I can't figure this one out. Most people don't stop and look they just slow down and if they can proceed blow through the intersection. You would think this would severely impact the mortality here but it doesn't.

Sidewalks. The sidewalks here are in a state of disrepair for the most part. You will have a beautiful block of colonial buildings that are impecably maintained but the sidewalk in front of them are just crap. Also the sidewalk changes here every 10 feet or so. It will be black and white tile, followed by large squares, followed by lined concrete etc. all within the same block.

The double L in Argentina as in parilla or calle is pronounced "zh" or "sh", prononcing double L as a Y sound will get you nowhere very quickly.

Lunfardo is a cache of Argentine Spanish slang that is widely used. There seem to be conflicting stories as to its origins. You can veiw a comprehensive lunfardo dictionary here:

http://www.elportaldeltango.com/english/dicciona.htm

Graffiti is ubiquitous. Although its not like taggers in the US looking for cred it is mainly an outlet for political messages instead of act of vandalism. I don't imagine its legal but it seems to be condoned to some extent.

Argentine women are simply beautiful.