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Did you know that you can also drink tea of Yerba Mate? Yes, we know that the best characteristic of Yerba Mate is to drink it from the Mate gourd, but as you may also know, there are people who think that sharing the same bombilla can be a little filthy. So, in this new chapter on how to drink Yerba Mate we bring you a solution for these people.Mate cocido is not the same as Mate. As we mentioned before, drinking mate in Argentina and some other Latin American countries is almost an ordi …

As we told you before, the Christmas Eve in Argentina is a warm one. We are in the first days of summer so the temperatures are usually the first high temperatures of the season. That is why our Christmas dinner is mostly full of different light and fresh dishes or appetizers instead of heavy and high in carbohydrates ones. Then, we also have a sort of after dinner. What we usually call the “Sweet Table”. But we will leave that one for the next post.Today, we are going to talk to you abou …

As we anticipated on our last blog entry, today we will tell you all about our after dinner table on Christmas Eve. Always leave the sweetest part for the end.Like we mentioned before, holidays season in Argentina lands just at the start of summer. That is the main reason why our dinners are generally on the lighter side of the spectrum. But when we talk about the sweet desserts we overlook those situations and like to go a bit overboard so is probably common to find our after dinner tabl …

The story of this iconic piece of the Christmas table started in Italy and then came to Latin-America, where it receives different names and secrets of elaboration.Whenever you try to identify the origin of a certain product, you can frequently find that there were always Egyptian people involved, and more closely in time is almost impossible not to find that the Romans where involved too. In the case of the Pan Dulce, the Romans were used to have bread sweetened with honey. In Italy aroun …

Have you ever tried a Cachafaz Alfajor? Or its amazing Dulce de Leche?Nowadays this brand is practically a synonym of Alfajor. But this company of no more than twelve years of history gained the reputation it has now in a quite controversial way. Behind the brand there are three siblings, Leonardo, Javier and Gastón Alcaraz who first started to elaborate a line of “alfajores de maicena” (alfajores made with cornstarch cookies) and now have one of most outstanding companies of Alfajores in …