Rob & Yvonne returned home from a Montana holiday just in time. Ham. Scalloped potatoes. Cucumber salad. Garlic toast. Waffle cone & ice-cream for dessert.
Category: food
Rio snack – Globo
Sweet or salty light weight nothings. Buy them on the beach. They were invented in 1955. Sold out of the Globo bakery in Botafogo, hence the name.
I found them too bland.
Brazilian food – Feijoada
A stew of beans with beef and pork, which is a typical dish in Portugal and former Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil, Macau, Angola, Mozambique and Goa.
Feijoada is available everywhere in Brazil. I passed it up on the buffet table many times as it tastes better than it looks.
🙂
Brazilian food – Pão de queijo
I only drink coffee in the morning. And the coffee at my hotel in Rio was awesome. Hot rich milk mixed with dark rich coffee.
Near the end of my stay the restaurant greeter brought me some as you shouldn’t leave Brazil without tasting them. 🙂
Pão de queijo (“Cheese Bread” in Portuguese) is a small, baked, cheese roll, a popular snack and breakfast food in Brazil. Pão de queijo originated from African slaves like many other Brazilian foods. …
Norte Grill Churrascaria, Rio de Janeiro
North Grill Steakhouse near Olympic City provides me a full buffet meal with desserts for less than C$10.
Plenty of choices. Great barbecue. 🙂
I typically have whatever is hot off the grill. Sushi with the fixin’s. Ham & cheeses. Fried garlic. Hummus. I try to resist dessert. Not all that many vegetables … I am paying by the 100gm. 🙂
Greek restaurant – Olive Tree in Petrofka, Saskatchewan
Best and most entertaining meal I can recall in many, many a year. If you get the chance, drive north from Saskatoon to check out Mike’s unique restaurant – The Olive Tree. 🙂
10 intriguing restaurants in rural Saskatchewan
do you like empanadas?
Rockin’ Ronnie is into them right now.
I tried many in Chile. Too bready. Not tasty enough for me. I do like the olive, however. It’s a treat.
An empanada (Spanish pronunciation: [empaˈnaða]; also called pastel in Portuguese and pate in Haitian Creole) is a stuffed bread or pastry baked or fried in many countries in Latin Europe, Latin America, the Southwestern United States, and parts of Southeast Asia. …
why I don’t like Chile
Chile is 2600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide. From the main north/south highway it’s easy access to fantastic wilderness.
Chile should be a tourist destination as good as New Zealand.
But it’s not. 😦
I’ve spent about 2 months total in Chile traveling most of the 2600 miles. Costs are similar to Canada … but quality of goods and services are poor by comparison.
If you find something of quality – Casa Azul hostel, for example – chances are it’s run by a foreigner. Probably German.
Most of the expats I met in Chile were frustrated by Chilean society.
People on the trail are good. But I’m not much impressed with the interactions I have with Chileans in the towns and cities.
A currency exchange guy tried to give me only half my money one time. (I’ve seen scummy practice like this in Italy recently, too.)
The World Health Organisation (2013) says over 40% of Chileans smoke, compared with 27% of Argentines and 17% of people in Brazil, where curbs on smoking began in the late 1990s. Chile’s health minister, Jaime Mañalich, says that treating tobacco victims takes a quarter of the $10 billion public health-care budget.
Chile’s smokers are getting younger. According to the Tobacco Atlas, a study of the industry, nearly 40% of girls aged 13-15 in Santiago, Chile’s capital, smoke cigarettes. That is up from just 20% in 2003, and is the highest rate in the world. …
The population looks unhealthy. Walking the streets reminds me of walking in Mexico. A very high percentage of people are conspicuously overweight. This is new to these nations.
Chile ranks 23 on a 2007 list of fattest countries with a percentage of 65.3% of its citizens with an unhealthy weight …
The diet is poor, I think. They still love hotdogs in Chile.
It’s a land that still (mostly) drinks instant coffee.
Internet access is slow Or non-existant. This is a land without enough competition between corporations.
The best reasons to visit Chile are outdoors adventure. And wine.
Otherwise, there are plenty of better destinations for the foreign tourist. I like southern Spain much better, for example.
I liked Chile better my 2004 visit.
related – Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (1999) by Sara Wheeler
Rick McCharles 