This book review was written for The Refugee & Immigrant Fund in January 2015 and originally appeared on their blog, Growing Together. In recent years, the concept of living “Slow” has been gaining ground, in many ways a natural response to the ever increasing hyper-connectivity and competitiveness of our modern world. Slow food, slow travel, …
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La Boca at once both attracts and repels. On one hand it is celebrated as one of Buenos Aires’ least changed barrios, stubbornly retaining its wayward charm; on the other it is maligned for its crime, pollution, and violence. Porteños will roll their eyes at camera-toting tourists hailing cabs for El Caminito, the neighbourhood’s iconic, …
West African blues twangs from the speakers and coalesces with the sounds of fish grilling, plantains sizzling, and the muffled bang of a pot or pan coming from the small kitchen. A map of Africa painted in red, its countries labelled in French, offers diners a silent geography lesson from the wall above the beer-stocked …
Continue reading El Buen Sabor: Villa Crespo’s Heart of Delicious
The security guard sits absent-mindedly, bored, at the entrance to the exhibition, seemingly unphased by the strange combination of disco, piercing screams, and melancholy reggae emanating from the darkened rooms of the gallery space. Visitors move uncertainly into the exhibit, as if entering some seaside carnival funhouse, or a bad memory. Small neon pink letters …
Emerging from the last stop of the A line at Avenida Carabobo, deep in the heart of Flores, I found myself in a neighbourhood far removed from the barrios I normally frequent, yet still strangely familiar. This middle-class barrio straddling the north-south divide of Avenida Rivadavia, with its quiet tree-lined side streets and wafting smells …
Continue reading Una Canción Coreana: Home-Cooking in Flores
