PUENTE ALTO – Corn! It is one of our favorite summer foods and can be used in many different forms to create wonderful dishes. That is why it has earned its own tribute, the “Corn Festival” (Festival de Choclo) in Puente Alto. A group of fairground workers decided to create this event and surprise their customers [...]
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British winemaker, Ian Hutcheon, has combined his two favorite hobbies, wine and astronomy to create Meteorito, a Cabernet Sauvignon aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. From the Tremonte vineyard in the Cachapoal Valley in Chile, which he bought in 2009, the wine was barrel-aged over one year by the process of malolactic fermentation. This is a process which reduces acidity in red wines and [...]
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Out of all the places one would expect to try a good dessert, culinary schools are probably not the first place that comes to mind when in Santiago, Chile. But what if you were to be at the right place at the right time? Las Americas, one of the many faux restaurants staged on a regular [...]
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Chile is blessed with the ability to produce an abundance of fruit and vegetables. Even in the villages of Patagonia, delicious grapes, avocados and cherries can be found. In this developing country, how rich we all are to each such healthy foods that have not to travel half the planet to get here. And this [...]
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Andes Wine’s sweets and pastry writer Suzanne Taylor writes about some food traditions that surround Christmas and New Year’s in Chile, and reveals a secret about the once, the quintessential Chilean meal, that will leave many wondering… By Suzanne Taylor One of the best ways to learn about a different culture is to share food [...]
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Written by Suzanne Taylor To many North Americans, knowledge of Chilean foods may only lead to the produce section where fruits like blueberries, blackberries, grapes and apples are abundant during the winter season. But dive a little further and you would be surprised at just how much more there is to this extremely diverse country. And [...]
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HONG KONG — A mystery of fake wine in Hong Kong has hit the Cono Sur Vineyard in Chile. The Chilean consulate in Hong Kong called on police to solve a mystery in which 100 crates of fake wine were found abandoned in the city on Nov. 7. The “wine” was colored water in bottles [...]
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LIMA – Peru’s Sabe a Perú gastronomical fair will be held in various cities in neighboring Chile during 2012. The fair will present traditional Peruvian cuisine and signature dishes from Ica, Huancayo, Chiclayo and other areas of Peru. The fair looks to promote the gastronomical variety and exquisiteness of the different cities of Peru. Several [...]
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