Post #441,969
8/23/22 1:24:11 AM
8/23/22 1:24:11 AM
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I would have thought there would be more spice
Am I just being a typical American thinking all food from South of Alabama is going to be spicy?
typo: "presentation variable to suite the occasion." /suit
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Post #441,970
8/23/22 2:18:23 AM
8/23/22 2:18:23 AM
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Re: I would have thought there would be more spice
Argentine cuisine is not "South American", not like that of Bolivia or Brazil to its north, or Chile over the Andes ridge. It is strictly European, while those are strongly influenced by Native American and African input, as well as Asian on the west coast. There is none of that in Argentina.
I have a couple of cookbooks on Argentine cusine that don't mention even the possibility of chili peppers, and one in Argentine Spanish with just one recipe with chilis, titled (translated) "Soup of the North", in other words, Bolivian. Other herbs and spices are also used with caution.
I have it from first hand testimony that chilis are used more than these books would indicate, but the popular flake mix, which I have tested, is quite mild. This, and a few fresh chilis, can be had because many of the green grocers in Argentina are Bolivian.
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Post #441,973
8/23/22 8:26:04 PM
8/23/22 8:26:04 PM
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I guess their international immigration history has more influence than regional
I wonder how long that will last.
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Post #441,974
8/24/22 12:04:42 AM
8/24/22 12:04:42 AM
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Right now population is about 79% European . . .
. . mostly Spanish and Italian. Other ethnicities are mostly in the north, away from the population centers. They now have significant immigration from other South American regions, but again, mostly to the north.
Beef consumption has declined significantly, but I don't expect their cuisine will change much for quite a long while.
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Post #441,979
8/24/22 11:00:21 PM
8/24/22 11:00:21 PM
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If Harry S. Truman had not signed the Displaced Persons Act of 1948...
I would have grown up in Argentina.
In the refugee camp in Germany my father had us on the wait list to be migrated to Argentina. In those days it was impossible for someone like our family to come to the USA. Truman make it possible for 200K refugees to come to the US over a 2 year period. We got lucky to make the list. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #441,980
8/25/22 12:36:21 AM
8/25/22 12:36:21 AM
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Post #441,981
8/25/22 1:49:28 PM
8/25/22 1:49:28 PM
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Was Argentina exceptionally welcoming, or just didn't have the structure to refuse?
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Post #441,982
8/25/22 3:33:40 PM
8/25/22 3:33:40 PM
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Re: Was Argentina exceptionally welcoming, or just didn't have the structure to refuse?
They as well as Brazil and Australia were welcoming. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #441,983
8/26/22 8:58:25 AM
8/28/22 2:15:23 PM
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Welcoming of people both of the right kind and the wrong...
Edited by CRConrad
Aug. 28, 2022, 02:15:23 PM EDT
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Post #441,984
8/26/22 9:23:16 AM
8/26/22 9:23:16 AM
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People of the right *were* the wrong kind
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Post #441,985
8/26/22 10:49:32 PM
8/26/22 10:49:32 PM
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Well, these were people that did not want to go back to the Soviet Union.
And Germany was in bad shape recovering from WW-II.
If you've read what happened to the people that did return to the Soviet Union they did the right thing. Many of those that returned wound up in Siberia and died there. My father would have been killed. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #441,988
8/28/22 2:18:21 PM
8/28/22 2:21:10 PM
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I meant the cliche of all the Nazi war criminals also ending up in Argentina and Brazil.
Edited by CRConrad
Aug. 28, 2022, 02:21:10 PM EDT
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Post #441,990
8/28/22 10:21:43 PM
8/28/22 10:21:43 PM
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Oh, yes!
And they did not become farm workers. Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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