Hi, my name is Julia Gonzales and I welcome you to my channel. If you've never been here before I love
to travel to experience new cultures and amazingly delicious foods. Last week I shared with you my
busy travel day from the U.S to Argentina. What $65 dollars a day in accommodations will get you,
and my first dinner at La Brigada. Where I tried my first Argentinian empanada and steak.
This week we indulge in the meats, as I share with you the local food festival,
called Flavors of the Country and we'll check out some horse racing.
I've been enjoying the cool weather here in Buenos Aires, it's a much-needed break from
the high temperatures and 100% humidity in Florida. While most of the time here it's been cloudy and a
little rainy, today, today the sun is shining bright, and it's the perfect day for a food festival.
Flavors of the country is a food festival that celebrates the traditional Argentinian food like,
asado, empanadas, and choripans and of course other foods, but the main attraction are the meats.
Argentines are purest when it comes to grilling, you'll never see them use treated wood or lighter
fluids because it affects the flavor of the meat. Instead, their beef is cooked long and
slow over wood fires but not directly in the flames allowing hot embers to do the work.
The festival is host to about 35 restaurants and food trucks are among some of the best in Buenos Aires
We enjoyed walking around, listening to the DJ and observing all the different options
we had to pick from for foods. But we were missing something
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La Cabrera is one of the restaurants we have reservations with and we knew
we were going to go there and try the steak however since they were here at
the food festival, we thought we'd try their choripán, complete with chimichurri sauce.
The Choripan is a well-loved Argentinian sandwich consisting of grilled chorizo sausage
and a crusty bread topped with lettuce and onions and for this one, we added chimichurri sauce
Choripán, the best sandwich ever!
The whole festival smelled like a yummy campfire
and the crowd was starting to pick up as we continued our way through the festival.
We watched in amazement how each chef grilled and tended to the meat.
You can see here there's a lot going on, you got sausage, beef, vegetables, and the chef there is
dishing out a chicken stew. At home we typically grill one or two things at a time, hamburgers, hot
dogs, maybe some chicken. But here they have a a lot going on and know exactly how to handle it.
I got a little star-struck
because this is Chori, you know Chori, I mean you've watched the episode of Somebody
Feed Phil with Ali Lazar, the famous food blogger from here in Argentina
she takes Phil for the best Choripán and they went to Chori. So guess what? We are too.
You can see here she starts off with the bread, adding those delicious sauces,
then here comes the lettuce
topped off with mushrooms and the meats,
and then wrapped up for easy eating.
This is Chori, which is supposed to be a fancy uh version of the Choripán.
Okay, lets try it.
The sausage is actually smoked and mushrooms has mayonnaise compared
to the one that we had earlier, there was just lettuce.
I like the more traditional but it's still good. In ode to my Peruvian friends
I saw the churro and I had to get one, so now I'm trying the Argentinian
churro. So it's dipped in chocolate and its dulce de leche
in the center.
It's good, I can't deny it, I have such a sweet tooth and maybe this is gonna be my thing
each country I go to I gotta try the churro.
The fun in traveling is the surprises and this one was for me
next, to the food festival, we saw horses and to To our surprise, they had horse races going on.
I didn't know we were going to see horses today. This is nice. I didn't need to bet I just enjoyed watching them come down the track
it was the best way to end the day after all the foods we've just consumed
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that concludes our fun-filled day enjoying the grilling here in Argentina hope you enjoyed this
video. Make sure to hit that subscribe button for more videos of my stay here in Argentina
and until next time get out there's a whole world you deserve to see.