Location: Aconcagua Cafe, Puente del Inca, Argentina
Dish: Lentejas
Ingredients: Lentil, calabash (whatever that is), carrot, sweet potato, bacon, pork sausage, spices
After a quick busride from Pontrerillos to Puente del Inca (two small Argentinian villages on the road between Mendoza and Santiago), we plopped ourselves down at the only open restaurant in town, Aconcagua Snack Bar. With America´s tallest mountain (and the world´s tallest, if you ignore Asia, which I most certainly cannot, lah) as a backdrop, I ventured away from the menu´s Continental classics (sandwiches and pizzas) and tried the only thing on the menu that sounded different: Lentejas. What arrived some 10 minutes later was a green stew, chock full of lentils and assorted pieces of pork. Dipping a small portion of bread shared with Auggie (who ordered Lentejas as well), we chowed down, enjoyed the view, and pretended to scratch the beards that accompanied everyone else´s faces in this neck of the woods.
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