Journalist + sommelier / Argentina + Latin America
(Star Wine List) Peru’s capital city is a recent buzzword on the global dining scene but let it be known Lima has been leading South America’s gastronomic pack for quite some time. And, the past few years have also seen substantial growth in terms of wine consumption in Lima. “Five years ago, limeños would likely […]
Latin America The new Peru? (Food Spark) Colombia is making its mark on the gastronomical map, and more chefs than ever are on the map, with one restaurant – LEO – ranking in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 list, and two – LEO and El Chato – ranking in the top 10 of Latin […]
(American Way inflight magazine) Argentines often refer to their country as a “crisol de razas,” or mix of races, since 6.6 million immigrants settled in the country in the 18th and 19th centuries—second only to the United States. The immigrants were mostly European, and locals still refer to themselves as “porteños,” alluding to their arrival […]
(The Independent) On a wintery August Thursday in Buenos Aires, Elvia Tito left her home in Villa Rodrigo Bueno, a shantytown, and loaded up her car with pans, folding chairs, tables and cooking supplies. It was business as usual for the Bolivian cook, who ran a lunchtime street food stall outside Cinar, a shipbuilding yard in […]
(ABTA magazine) With British Airways linking London and Santiago, I explore the birth country of poet Pablo Neruda that counts desert, ice fields and wine country among its many splendours. Please check out the November 2019 edition of the ABTA mag.
(Fine Dining Lovers) A noble plant with millenary nutritional and medicinal values as well as deep ancestral ties, negative press about Erythroxylum coca has long outweighed the positive. Blame disparaging headlines on cocaine alkaloid, the pharmacologically active component found in fresh leaves that is extracted to produce cocaine. But, good news is on the horizon as […]
(La Nación) Queremos disfrutar de los mejores restaurantes del mundo pero la inflación y el tipo de cambio fluctuante realmente nos supera cuando llegamos al exterior. Pero hay que tener en cuenta que muchos chefs reconocidos llevan proyectos informales y populares a su portafolio fine dining, lo cual permite una experiencia gastronómica craneada por los mas grosos […]
(La Nación) Te compraste un pasaje en una aerolínea low cost, lo mandaste a tu tarjeta de crédito en 12 cuotas (obvio), viajaste en transporte público desde el aeropuerto hasta tu alojamiento pero, a pesar de todos los ajustes meticulosos, igual no te alcanza la plata para comer en un restaurante que rankea en la […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) Ana Roš, owner of Slovenia’s restaurant Hiša Franko, named World’s Best Female Chef in 2017, shares her top kitchen finds CHILLIES FROM THAILAND ‘Thai food has to be some of my favourite in the world – it’s colourful and intense, and goes from sweet to sour to spicy. While I don’t really […]
(Monocle) The Argentine chef on early inspiration, youthful rebellion, meaty domination and the tyranny of interfering waiters. In the September 2019 edition of Monocle.