As I have alluded to, but not directly explained, I now live with three Uruguayan girls in an apartment in a neighborhood called Punta Carretas. The neighborhood is known mostly for its mall, known in Spanish as Punta Carretas Shopping. Two of the girls study architecture. One works at a travel agent. We live as [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Food’
May 5, 2008
Differences: Breakfasts. Making Chili.
A roommate recently asked me if it were true that in the USA people sometimes eat really big breakfasts. She said she had seen it in the movies that we did. I told her that we didn’t always eat big breakfasts, but certainly when we had time (weekends, holidays, family get-togethers) we would eat a [...]
April 30, 2008
Sushi Combinado.
Today I ate alone—by choice—with the uncomfortable feeling of eating alone. Despite the discomfort, it seemed to me (as it always seems) a valid exercise for some reason. Perhaps I see eating alone as a practice of self-contentedness, to sit without social activity, to occupy myself with only the bustle of my own mind. Other [...]
April 24, 2008
Mate (the beverage. A way of life.)
Never caught without a mate and thermos, Uruguayans are famous for their consumption of this highly caffeinated tea. Mate is ironically not cultivated within Uruguay, rather it is imported from Brazil and Paraguay. I have been told that in Buenos Aires when someone carries mate on the street they are said to be acting “as [...]
