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I am a californian who has traveled a lot and loves giving advice, mostly food related but also cultural when it's safe consensual and appropriate to the current legal climate. Contact me via email if you really must.

stumbled across a music fest on our way out of medellin, all bands from choco and some other western province— the audience, mostly from choco and said province, was overwhelmingly black, and this dance group’s cumbia/tambor bonanza got seriously racial…

stumbled across a music fest on our way out of medellin, all bands from choco and some other western province— the audience, mostly from choco and said province, was overwhelmingly black, and this dance group’s cumbia/tambor bonanza got seriously racial…

sorry pollería carlitos, juan has new favorite restaurant in BsAs: veggie all you can eat!  it feel so good to have good tofu again…

sorry pollería carlitos, juan has new favorite restaurant in BsAs: veggie all you can eat!  it feel so good to have good tofu again…

welcome back to BsAs!  that’ll be 7.50p.  i got crazy gouged (probably double the local ghettodweller price, judging from the reaction of a regular customer to being quoted my price for his hypothetical plate) when my serious hunger drove me to take lunch in the bolivian micro-ghetto behind retiro bus station.  then again, it was good ají de trigo…

welcome back to BsAs!  that’ll be 7.50p.  i got crazy gouged (probably double the local ghettodweller price, judging from the reaction of a regular customer to being quoted my price for his hypothetical plate) when my serious hunger drove me to take lunch in the bolivian micro-ghetto behind retiro bus station.  then again, it was good ají de trigo…

good eats, 3564 corrientes.  try the arroz con pato.

good eats, 3564 corrientes.  try the arroz con pato.

chiclayo´s best turkey sammich place, run by a chinese family.  the tamales, predictably enough, had a boney piece of turkey in the middle and were made with turkey drippings/lard.

chiclayo´s best turkey sammich place, run by a chinese family.  the tamales, predictably enough, had a boney piece of turkey in the middle and were made with turkey drippings/lard.

stumbled across a music fest on our way out of medellin, all bands from choco and some other western province— the audience, mostly from choco and said province, was overwhelmingly black, and this dance group’s cumbia/tambor bonanza got seriously racial…

stumbled across a music fest on our way out of medellin, all bands from choco and some other western province— the audience, mostly from choco and said province, was overwhelmingly black, and this dance group’s cumbia/tambor bonanza got seriously racial…

sorry pollería carlitos, juan has new favorite restaurant in BsAs: veggie all you can eat!  it feel so good to have good tofu again…

sorry pollería carlitos, juan has new favorite restaurant in BsAs: veggie all you can eat!  it feel so good to have good tofu again…

welcome back to BsAs!  that’ll be 7.50p.  i got crazy gouged (probably double the local ghettodweller price, judging from the reaction of a regular customer to being quoted my price for his hypothetical plate) when my serious hunger drove me to take lunch in the bolivian micro-ghetto behind retiro bus station.  then again, it was good ají de trigo…

welcome back to BsAs!  that’ll be 7.50p.  i got crazy gouged (probably double the local ghettodweller price, judging from the reaction of a regular customer to being quoted my price for his hypothetical plate) when my serious hunger drove me to take lunch in the bolivian micro-ghetto behind retiro bus station.  then again, it was good ají de trigo…

good eats, 3564 corrientes.  try the arroz con pato.

good eats, 3564 corrientes.  try the arroz con pato.

chiclayo´s best turkey sammich place, run by a chinese family.  the tamales, predictably enough, had a boney piece of turkey in the middle and were made with turkey drippings/lard.

chiclayo´s best turkey sammich place, run by a chinese family.  the tamales, predictably enough, had a boney piece of turkey in the middle and were made with turkey drippings/lard.

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I am a californian who has traveled a lot and loves giving advice, mostly food related but also cultural when it's safe consensual and appropriate to the current legal climate. Contact me via email if you really must.