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Recent news indicates that Barrick Gold Corp. will be mining gold from high in the Andes Mountains. The impressive part of this announcement is that they’ll be moving glaciers to reach their objective. Barrick had planned to expose the gold under the ice by breaking up part of the glacirs and dumping the ice in [...]
Posted February 27, 2006 in In the News | 2 Comments »
The Olympics are in full swing in Torino, Italy and our lovely Chile has sent its contingent of athletes to compete. According to NBCOlympics.com: Chile is not expected to contend for a medal in Torino. This is kind of disheartening but looking at the results thus far, this prediction seems to be holding true. Chile’s [...]
Posted February 20, 2006 in In the News | Comments Off
As I describe on the Chilean Food page, “Once” is the light meal eaten in the late afternoon. Faithful reader SmellWing let me know of the origins of the Chilean “Once”: Tradition has it that long ago men that wanted to drink their liquor, or “aguardiente” in Spanish, during the time of day that is [...]
Posted February 13, 2006 in Culture, Food, Site News | Comments Off
A reader writes: Pepe, I am the leader of a girl scout troop and we are putting a booth about Chile together. We are looking for pictures of traditional clothing and easy recipes we can make and serve at our booth. Can you give me some web sites or suggestions? The Chilean cowboys dress up [...]
Posted February 7, 2006 in Ask Pepe, Culture, Food | Comments Off
Yeager writes: We are one Chinese importer for dry prune. As our growing selling situation for dry prune. we’d like to know some of your country dry prune farmers’ contact information. We will appreciate any of your help. You may want to contact the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association: http://www.cffa.org The CFFA has branches throughout the [...]
Posted February 2, 2006 in Ask Pepe, Business, Food | Comments Off
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