Pick Up The Fork

A Serious Eater's Guide to Buenos Aires and Beyond

Pesto Pasta with Sun Dried Tomato and Feta

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Dust off your food processor or take out the dear old mortar and pestle because it’s pesto-o-clock. A pesto brightens up any boring pasta recipe, converting naked noodles in a stupid sauce, to a flavor-packed silly basil-rific tomato-y concoction.

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Product of the Day: Cracked Out On Crackers

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I don’t know the name of these crackers, the brand, or where you can even find them. Ever since I spotted them hanging by the rusty (and crusty) clips at the end of the aisle at my local chino (Dorrego y Soler), it was love at first sight. Nothing too fancy, these are great crackas, […]

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Put on your sandwich gloves, it’s time to eat some sandwiches

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Where do you go in Buenos Aires to sink your teeth into that perfect sandwich? With almost every café and restaurant serving up some sanguche of sorts, only few really do it right. The ideal sandwich needs to have at least three important components to survive in the elite world of killer sandwiches:

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Arévalo’s New Local Hot Spots: Local Restó & Casa Arévalo

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UPDATE: LOCAL is now closed.  Living in Palermo Hollywood, it seems like there are multiple restaurants popping up on a monthly basis. Although I find most of them a massive disappointment, there was one in particular that I happily and anxiously awaited the grand opening. The master chef couple Estefanía Di Benedetto and Matías Kyriazis, the […]

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Full City Coffee House: Real Coffee Has Finally Arrived

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**FULL CITY COFFEE HOUSE HAS CHANGED LOCATIONS AND IS NOW IN PALERMO SOHO ON THAMES** Coffee lovers look no further, your days of disappointed watered-down, milk bathed, sugar roasted cortados are over. Full City Coffee House in Chacarita is the absolute real deal, serving their own brand of high quality Colombian coffee and becoming one […]

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Magdalena’s Getting POKE’D Hard: POKE Restaurant’s Weekly Pop Up

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**SADLY POKE IS NOT LONGER AROUND IN BUENOS AIRES** It was a sad day in the life of many spice fiend Palermo-ers when POKE delivery retired their bicycle and ended their delivery-only service. A single tear dropped on that perfectly cupped iceberg lettuce wrap as I said a sad goodbye to POKE, one of (if not […]

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Minestrone Soup: The Soup That Keeps On Giving

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Hearty, cheap, healthy and filling, that’s why Minestrone is always my go-to soup when the weather gets cold. Super easy to make, it’s like the soup that keeps on giving: if you are running out of soupy liquid, just add more chicken stock and tomato puré, if you need more hearty goodness, chop up more […]

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Salted Dulce de Leche Brownie Recipe

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Sometimes I like to Sandra Lee my way around a recipe, semi-shamefully taking unMarthalike shortcuts when it comes to baking. While self-righteous cooks may get a major bitch face caradeculo at the blasphemous thought of using boxed brownie mix, here’s a way to pimp out pre-packaged brownies and play it off like it’s 100% homemade. The […]

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Hot Date In Buenos Aires: Perfect Date Spots For Any Occasion

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Unwrap the romance-enhanced clichés, drown yourself in a pungent nose-stinging cologne and practice your sexy O faces in the mirror because it’s DATE NIGHT! Whether it’s a first date, last date, secret date, or a date where you are looking to get-it-onnnn, here are some suggestions for that perfect date spot no matter the situation.

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The Scrambled Egg Breakfast Empanada

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They have the breakfast burrito and the breakfast sandwich, what about the breakfast empanada? Fill it with whatever tickles your breakfast fancy, here is just another way to reinvent the Argentine empanada favorite. Argie-fying my Yanqui food ways, that’s what I call a cultural exchange.

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