Katie Metz de Martínez's Posts Tagged 'merienda' (3)

Pasta Frola: The Pasta That Isn’t

Although the name “pasta frola” no doubt conjures up images of fine strands of spaghetti or one of its fancifully-shaped relatives such as bow ties, pasta frola, in fact, has absolutely…

No Easter celebration in Argentina can be considered complete without a rosca de Pascua and some colorful chocolate Easter eggs. Easily the most popular baked good at Easter, the rosca de Pascua, a decorated, ring-shaped loaf of bread, appears…

While roaming the vast Argentine pampa, the gauchos of yore maintained a nomadic way of life that afforded limited access to foodstuffs. Many a gaucho subsisted on a diet restricted to grilled beef and…