It was made official two days after our arrival to the country, it is the French Alstom group which was chosen to give in Argentina its first line of high-speed Train, the first one in Latin America.

In full electoral year, the Argentinian president N stor Kirchner indeed made transport by rail one of the axles of his policy. He so hopes to improve the growth of the country, notably by envisaging 5000 direct indirect jobs and 20000. This first line of 710km will indeed link up three main cities of the country, Buenos Aires, Rosario and Cordoba, currently in full economic development.

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The gastronomy of the different countries was always identified by the single speciality: in Italy, these are pasta. In England, confectioneries. In France, frogs' legs. In Spain, the paella. In Belgium, moulds / chips. And for Argentina, it is the meat.

And all sites will say it to you,  they eat well in Argentina  :

high beef in pampa, with nothing to envy our Charolais, gives one of the best meats of the world, and strong Italian immigration produced a fine and sophisticated culinary culture.

AHAHAHAH. It would really be case, if pizzas and gnocchis in the mayonnaise-tomato of the sophisticated kitchen were called. Because the true Italians, they, have the Parmesan, as well as the Neapolitan sauces, bolognaises, carbonara, puttanesca, arrabiata, etc. to accompany their pasta. While our Charolais, they, also make some milk which allows to produce some cheese, some cream, some salted butter, the fromage frais, and I cross it and of the best.

But truce of sarcasms, let us come from it to facts. It is enough to do some researches on Internet to understand that the Argentinians do not cook dishes worked out. When you type  recipes Argentinian  in Google, you realise that very quickly they fall again on three (only) flat typical Argentinians:

• Empanadas, goes out of buns stuck in the meat or in the ham;
• The locro criollo, dish of bet the day of the national holiday of May 24th, often linked to our meat and bean stew, but wrongly;
• And of course famous and less delightful parrillas, grilled meat of various pieces of meat thick and loving as the bife of lomo or else the bife of chorizo.

Of course when they arrive the first days, to pay a good edge of meat in all meals for inexpensive, accompanied with fritas daddies hot and of a good they choppe Srella Artois, this pleases. But here is he arrives one time when they tell themselves that it is perhaps going be necessary to vary meals, on pain of some problems of transit.

First reflex, therefore, they tell themselves that they are going to make to eat as at home, according to habits, where rather, according to what they can make. Only, you should not hope to find our Mediterranean ingredients in the supermarkets of Buenos Aires. Olive oil, grasses of Provence, grated Emmenthal? That nenni! To say to everything to you, there is not even marine salt, nor black pepper here. Pasta, but not big thing is found to season them. Of the rice, but the chicken and the fish are priceless compared with beef. Some dairy products, but all in 0 % without exception. Edges of ham, but similar to those served on the plane You will have understood him, it is true that the meat of beef is really very good here, but it is difficult to find the ingredients which could allow us to cook it "French-style" , to change parrillas a bit. As for the chicken, habitually the meat of the mown student, it is almost about one puts luxury, in the same capacity as the cheese For example, a sachet of 50g of pseudo-Parmesan will return to you 6 pesos, 150g of blue cheese govern rather in 35 pesos, while 500g of meat of beef cost 5 pesos only And Mc Do, around 15 pesos!

Then they tell themselves that they are going to fit. That he am tout- -fait normal, as foreigner, to make some concessions. That the flat places with local ingredients are going to be cooked. That is to say from Empanadas, and from parrillas every day. Or even some eatable grease (cf. photo opposite)? I have nothing against a barbec token , on the contrary, but there, I will come from it almost to want vegetables. But once again, few choices in rays. Some carrots will be found of course, lettuces and aubergines in supermarket, but it is not common to eat of the greenery here, put to one side perhaps in salad For your health, eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables a day, which he said. Ah, poor Frenchmen

Always in our search of discovery of Buenos Aires, we have been in the famous district of Boca today. It is about one of the places most known and visited of the federal capital, in spite of its unconditional poverty and its unhealthy reputation.

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A friend announced me his discovery in wakefulness on the net, on the occasion of the future opening of his blog.  Reinvigorate, you know?  he said to me,  it is well?  . My faith, I did not know, and I therefore applied for invitation on the site of Reinvigorate to participate in the silly test of version. Having accepted this invitation there is some days of this, I could form by it an opinion rather (or even very) positive

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